We finished 95% of the mosaic tiles in April. I took my students up to our mural wall, by the auditorium, and we began measuring. I had hoped to center the mural on the wall, as we had with the first mural. We began measuring and realized that the fire hose connection would end up right in the mural! OH NO!!!!!! Students suggested we tile the hose connection (an ambitious process). Other students said maybe we could create a hole around the connector (also ambitious). I kept thinking, no matter how we did this, we’d still have a hose connection coming out of one of the people in the mural, and it would look, well, to speak frankly, rather phallic! NOT what one wants at a middle school!!!!!!!!
We looked for a way around the hose outlet. The best we could do was to measure from the edge of the wall – 27 feet down, we stopped about 3” short of the hose connector. YAY, success! We could do this. So we measured 27 feet long, 9 feet high, and drew the outline in marker. I wrote in the name of our maintenance superman, gave him a phone call, bought cans of the super duper paint remover, and went off to my art education conference.
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