WPLN News Archive; 10 Cooper Mural (Adrienne) 1 27 99; News Archive 1/8/99-2/5/99

a glance at the downtown working for building on the corner of six in church one might think the wall was more than a couple of weeks ago it had just six windows now it has not a month ago the facade was flat now has an archway leading into the buildings but does it really all are your eyes playing tricks on you that's what artist michael cooper want you to ask yourself he's spent the past couple of months on the left about forty feet high in the air painting a mural and trump voice style that's a french term meaning difficultly ii so far he's done such a good job he says he's even fold one of his toughest critics why just a lot less a lot of it was built without an area as to set aright stand that before the first came out and they think okay what cbo working inside our heart we interview for surrogacy doing something inside the artist who thought the artist lil political of law and that's exactly the kind of reaction a lot of people he says he's having a blast working in

such a public arena try shutting up at him and he peeks his head out of the little window he cut out of what he calls his self made entertainment center he might even give you a ride but he's quick to warn that his insurance doesn't cover dry cleaning her paint stain clothes but this is the power to pay as brazil supposedly has been covering one side of the new church group of people jackhammers tear down the old cast they're not building on the other side any as electricians i love with cooper as they work on some wire high above the ground and almost love with the building's roof walker hooper explain how it's gone about making his new york come alive so far he's painted and three windows

percent margin fake interests align a dark t apart supported the top of the wall and its ears are bred breakfast in the late sixties because the fbi and the fbi and the white house but instead the us by the way this is basically that the point of them worst it's a little more complicated than the professional makes it sound he made scaled detail drawings first in carefully translated those drawings on to the wall with the help of a royal are intertwined and this is a play

with it you know where your warrior out as liz lemon those feel like that is that like using over the pages of fbi was awarded the mural commissioned by group of businesses who wanted to revitalize the area sarah miller is with the downtown partnership they lead the initiative for the project at requested white work and running career who owned the buildings but we really have to just narrow upchurch trees concrete impetus for more murals and downs hand in the other building owners will see how terrific business for them tanned and hopefully it'll be good for the business and everybody wanted to be honest this is the females be the case that there's a ton of cities around the

country that target actually have tours of the murals around the town so it's actually a tourist draw that if we can get something like that not just for now cooper's busy putting the final touches on his mural he plans to add to planters to complement the park and a couple of construction workers lugging pieces for the building as for his surprise and he said yes people go see it to piece it together for themselves for national public radio i'm at an outlaw