Eureka Valley Rec Center

 Posted by on October 14, 2011
Oct 142011
 

Castro District/Eureka Valley
Eureka Valley Rec Center
157 Collingwood Street

Time After Time
by Betsie Miller-Kusz
2005

 

Betsie was Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico and resides in Jemez, New Mexico.  This is from her website “I paint and only paint.  My installations are extensions of this act, which gives meaning to my existence. These paintings speak about the field of consciousness as it transforms itself, with a great guardian figure as the mediator.  Through rivers, into seas, through trees and mesas, the sentience of life flows into the light. This is the territory which I have then painted into reality, and in the New Mexico paintings, brought back into the land, guarded by my protector figure.

In the past several years, I have flown over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the South China Sea, the Inland Sea of Japan, the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. During this time, my life has undergone profound changes, and yet has seemed tranquil and at peace on its surface. So this my imagery, after many years of painting the human figure, speaking of respite available in the midst of turbulence.

I hope the paintings invoke the life force which was needed to paint them. They are simply the brush in my hands, close to the earth.”

First painted in 1993, this mural was dedicated to Claire Anderson, a popular director at the recreation center for 35 years, and the mural depicts waves of music as color moving out from a piano. The original composition was extended to cover two sides of the new Teen Center building when the builing was renovated in 2006.  The new work was done by Vicki Saulls.  The original mural, sponsored by the Eureka Valley Trails & Art Network, was painted with help from the surrounding community.

This mural is on the side of the rec center.  There is a very narrow alley and then the dog park.  You can not really get a clear shot of the mural as a whole so I had to bring it to you through the chain link fence and inside the dog park.

  4 Responses to “Eureka Valley Rec Center”

  1. Fabulous colours!

  2. More wonderful murals! You must be having so much fun wandering about and photographing them!

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