DIGITAL ART – Seen from the Streetcar in New Orleans

For almost a year I have been walking past a banner mural (Carondelet and Poydras) and thinking it was an advertisement. I always wondered what this banner was advertising, when actually it was a digital collage entitled ‘All Aboard’ by Lou Blackwell. This banner mural combines a documentary photograph of New Orleanians boarding a school bus to escape Katrina’s rising waters with Michelangelo’s fresco of ‘The Flood’, painted in 1510 for the Sistine Chapel. Both narratives describe the fall or failure of a civilization and simultaneously celebrate individual acts of heroism and humanity.” This 2500 square foot banner mural was commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans and the Joan Mitchell Foundation for “Art in Public Places”. It is hosted by LePavillon Hotel.

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