Chris Velasco: "Take Pride Winnipeg had asked for something pertaining to Lower Fort
Garry. I actually went there to check it out because I'd never been there before. I was
initially only going to show one aspect of Lower Fort Garry, but after being there, I
realized there was so much that you could show; and to present only one aspect just
wouldn't be adequate. So I decided to show it in a kind of collage perspective. All the
costumes in the Mural were based on the period specific costumes the employees at the
Fort were wearing that day I visited. Most of the subjects for the Mural, for example the
carriage, were done from photo references- photos I took while I was there."
"The project took me about three weeks. I was actually sharing the scaffolding with
Mandy (van Leeuwen) and Jennifer (Johnson) who were working on the adjacent wall!
They were there before me, so since I couldn't reach the top of my wall without the
scaffolding, I worked on the bottom half of the wall first! Normally you would never
paint a wall that way! When you do the top later, paint spills on your finished lower
section!"
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