Wolny, who worked with inmates through Platte Valley Correction Services to paint a mural on prison walls last year, and the other artists say the Columbine High massacre affected them and provided inspiration for the work, which is 12 feet high and 16 feet wide. They'll complete it at the Boys and Girls Club Pope branch this week, and then it will be on view at Cole Middle School in north Denver through Aug. 7. When the mural rolls into communities across Colorado, students will be able to create butterflies and flowers and attach them to it. It depicts people of all races and many ethnic backgrounds and represents community and world problems. As they try to suppress the negative influences, their arms and bodies rise from a cocoon to a butterfly.
Chains break from the bodies of the captured as they free themselves from the evil forces.
They rise from seeds to col umbine flowers blooming under a dove. A mirror is carved in the shape of a root leading from the seed to the open flower. We want young people to look at themselves in this mirror and see that they want to move up and beyond, not stay stuck underground,'' said Garza, 25. The Denver Post. All rights reserved.