Rebuilding the Block

Erik Burkes describes his mural, Rebuilding the Block, as "a texture dense field of western motifs and a deconstructed cinder block. Atop the pattern sits yellow lines demarcating the layout of the streets, a mile in every direction. A pair of eyes represent the creative visionaries atop a city determined to reinvent itself without any luck or success. The nearby peak of Mt. Rose is anchored at the base of the wall, covering the mouth and serving as a reference point for Reno's most regarded resource...Lake Tahoe" (eriktburke.com). A gray cinder block floats in front of a person's forehead that is framed by hair. Piercing blue eyes stare at the viewer as the facial features begin to fade at the bridge of the nose. Blue, green, and red triangles in ones, twos, and threes speckle the mural and comprise Lake Tahoe at the bottom of the mural, with Mt. Rose rising above. Faint yellow lines representing roads/streets cover the mural. Burke's moniker (OU34) is painted in bright yellow on the bottom-left corner. The mural is 16 x 20 ft.