Titled Don’t Wake the Dreamer, the piece is 16 feet long and 153 feet high.
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“I set out to create a landmark,” she says of her new mural. For the most part, Lee told us, she’s been painting Monday through Friday from at least 8 a.m. It took about a week longer than expected, in part because the summer heat limited the number of hours she could work on the piece each day. Lee started painting the mural on May 5, hoping to finish by June 15. Lee describes one spot with two birds located near the reclined figure's head as a “perfect spot” for taking pictures of kids. “There are lots of little activated spaces,” she says. “I wanted something that people would come and interact with,” she says. But she wanted to do more than simply replicate her prior Three Birds piece, which was the first mural she ever painted. “The community said they wanted an iconic mural,” Lee says. Community involvement in this work actually started last year, when finalists for the mural project that drew dozens of submissions got to present their ideas to both the City and members of the community. She’s adorned with nearly 100 flowers and accompanied by five birds - including three located near her feet, where people have already started stopping to take photos the way they once did at her Roosevelt Row mural. Lee’s newest mural, completed just this week, features a woman lying on her side with waves of hair that mirror the shape of gentle, rolling hills. It's located next to Jaycee Park, in a residential neighborhood not far from downtown Tempe. The company demolishing the building, Baron Properties, announced it would be working with Lee to create an exterior design element featuring three of her iconic birds, but Lee has been keeping busy in the meantime with other projects – including painting the first public mural commission by the City of Tempe. Others wanted to preserve two interior murals by Ted DeGrazia, whose iconic images of children and nature were a pop culture hit during the mid-20th century.īut many mourned the fate of Lauren Lee’s Three Birds, a mural located on an east-facing wall on the northwest corner of Roosevelt and Third Streets in the Roosevelt Row arts district until the building’s destruction earlier this year. Some lamented the loss of the building located at 222 East Roosevelt Street, which once housed the city’s first gay bar.
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When news spread earlier this year that the building most recently occupied by a small business called GreenHAUS would be demolished to make way for a new housing development, a community uproar ensued.