Loganic Arts
Live Painting Session w/ Loganic
Filmed & edited by Lucie Romero
Music: "Hummin'" - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
(Large Professor remix)
((I do not own the rights to this music))
About the Mural
The Downtown Macon Bus Terminal (written Jan. 1, 2025)
I was reminded of my truest vision on this latest trip back to a hometown. My art practice is a heart practice. A gift of reciprocity.
I was commissioned to retouch the mural I’d created at the MTA bus terminal in 2017. To touch up some knicks and chips. “Wear and tear” from a bus station in use. In this way, I see the work as a living mural, liable to change from functioning as intended.
I recall the challenge of “encouraging interactivity” I ruminated over when conceptualizing the work. How was I to get the people involved, short of asking them to participate with paint?
So I hung around downtown and kicked it with all types of Maconites in transit - folks trying to get to and from work, taking classes at Macon Tech, someone visiting a dialysis patient. Riding from Gray Highway to Vineville, Eisenhower Parkway to Pleasant Hill, all connecting at the downtown hub. I don’t agree with invasive public art, or disregarding the actual residents of an area for an artistic ego trip. In that regard, I realized that only the bus riders were deserving of being portrayed on that wall.
So I talked with whoever, generating an energy I only can attribute to my father. The energy he seemed to cook up whenever I was fortunate enough to accompany him somewhere. I felt like everybody knew and loved my father, a beloved man of the community, based on their loud and wide-grinned interactions. Throughout the conversations, I asked to photograph them in a seated position. Some politely declined, but most gladly accepted.
I came back after nightfall and projected the pictures on the facade of the terminal wall, traced them and came back over a series of two weeks to paint their silhouettes.
As I retouched this mural, the proof was in the reactions. “You doing a good job” “Awight now, folk!” “Dat’s fye, bruh!” I wasn’t caught by the compliments as much as I was taken with the personal connective stories folks came up and told me. A homeless lady stopped to tell me of her friend who’d passed in 2019, and how the mural reminds her of the many cross country travels they’d took. One recognized a church member’s form. Another said she liked that there are “countenances with no faces”. A few even got reinvigorated to draw like they used to. (D Rock, get into it!)
More than anything, I appreciated sharing artistic love with folks of my hometown. That’s a blessing even unknown to prophets.
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