The Concept: People Who Read, Bloom
The mural explores a deeply empathetic human truth. Not long ago, I stumbled across a thought that resonated with me profoundly: “There are no people who are truly unread. You don’t need to plow through piles of literature to live out the exact same dramas, storms, and heavy emotions described in books.”
Every great story ever written is built on fundamental human experience. Many people who have never opened a classic have still lived its pages—they have carried those exact same inner struggles and depths of feeling, just without realizing it. That is why it is fundamentally wrong to judge others. Yet, for me, there is a distinct magic to the act of reading: people who read—they bloom.
Facing the Absorbent Concrete
Bringing this poetic vision to life required a gritty technical battle. The wall's texture was extremely challenging—the weathered, porous concrete acted as a sponge, draining paint rapidly. The entire background layout, soft ovals, and shading were executed using a compressor paint sprayer (consuming about 7.5 liters of gray paint), layered with sharp details that required over 140 aerosol cans.
To cover the shifting geometric angles, the workflow required two separate boom lifts. For the highest, most unreachable sections near the top edge, the machinery wasn't enough—we had to roll the paint manually using a long extension pole while reaching down directly from the roof of the building.