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Bus Shelter Mural Program Gallery - Villa
Mural created by B.E.S.T. High School students
Located on SR-520 at the Montlake Overpass in Seattle
A solitary peacock stands guard like a sentinel over the pathway to fantastical landscapes, a sweeping vista beyond the portals of architecture seemingly left by some ancient civilization. Painted in the Trompe d'oil (deceive the eye) style, students at B.E.S.T., an alternative high school in Kirkland, learned and applied prospective design and "faux" finishes to create walls and columns of polished stone and the vista that looks beyond reality. The pathway, like the Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of Oz, beckons the viewer to take that one step beyond.
The art students and Art teacher Mia Arends got the opportunity to travel to Russia to study architecture during the course of this project.
Completed Fall 1996
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