Houston-based artist creates massive mural in motion
We’ll soon have a waterfall between Lakes Monona and Mendota. A massive, cascading mural will be unveiled on West Washington Avenue on Nov. 10. Its working title is simply “The Waterfall,” though that may give way to “Technology in Motion.” Roughly 15 by 123 feet, it adorns the former AT&T building, 316 W. Washington Ave. “The objective was to make the mural look like it’s in motion, falling down onto the awning, which I also designed,” says artist Jonathan Brown. He and a team of 10 worked on the mural’s painted panels at Brown’s Houston-based Modern Mosaics studio. Brown says the mural includes nearly 500 full-color changing LED nodes. Also, “It has 15 really theatrical exterior lights and, in the ground in front of the building, a lot of lighting nodes trickling out to the street.”
