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In addition to helping establish the block where the Hawthorne Center is located as an area friendly to graffiti artists, Hopkins has also made a huge contribution to the neighborhood in the form of a large permanent mural across the street from the Center. |
| Working in conjunction with Mike Smash, the mixed media mural entitled “Directions” spans more than half the length of the block and consists of paint, plaster, concrete, ceramics, mirrors, and even a few bicycle parts. Hopkins was inspired to create this piece by the desire to find a way to illustrate “how we all move in a lot of different directions” personally and artistically, and how we strive to find “that right direction.” This theme is illustrated through a collage of soaring arrows, fingers and hands reaching, pushing buttons, sometimes even coming off the wall, and eyes and faces looking off into the distance. Hopkins takes great pride in the mural's unique qualities, such as the fact that while over 100 feet wide, the mural is only about ten feet tall and at street level, giving it a very intimate and pedestrian-friendly feel, and the ways in which the mural incorporates parts of the building into itself, such as where old window frames have been transformed into giant eyeglasses. |
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