Rise From the Ashes

I worked on this mural with Eric Hinote. We wanted to create an image that captured the spirit of the moment. One Spark was just getting started and there was a lot of forward momentum you could see going on in Downtown Jacksonville.

Downtown Jacksonville was once a vibrant center of the city. Today it is aspiring to once again be great. Years of white flight and countless strip malls have turned Jacksonville, FL into a city that would rather destroy its ecologically significant wetlands for another corporate restaurant than restore the urban center, but we can see change coming.

With the image of a phoenix, we called the city to once again embrace its downtown. You can see the flickers of progress with spaces like cowork, the revitalization of Hemming Park, and cultural institutions like MOCA.