By Nathan Solis – TheEastsiderLA.com – Photo Not Credited.
Mount Washington, California — Artist Pola Lopez leans against the painted wall and fills out the details with her paint brush. She’s the second artist to put her signature on the Southwest Museum mural, which spreads across a retaining wall at the base of a hill, the tower of the museum looming overhead. The 170-foot-long “Southwest Museum Mural” that stretches along a section of Marmion Way is in the final stages of restoration. But the job of reviving the celebration of indigenous life proved to be more costly and complicated than expected and left the original artist feeling offended. Writer Nathan Solis talked to those involved about the technical and spiritual tasks to resurrect a piece of public art and the challenges that go with it.
