38The Building Wearing a Tree
Tree mural by Live Oak Classical School students with art teacher Bailey Pajela, 2019 · paint worked as a faux mosaic on the school’s own Logic & Rhetoric campus building, 420 S 5th St, in the Silo District · credited by Creative Waco’s public art mapMURAL
Every branch ends in a curl. The tree got a perm and it took.
A single orange-gold trunk comes up out of the ground and forks into a canopy that covers an entire building — and every branch, every twig, every last shoot ends in a tight little spiral. Dozens of them. It's Klimt by way of Central Texas, painted across a field of what looks like a million hand-set pebbles.
Stand back far enough and something else happens. The building has two dark windows sitting low on either side of the trunk. Two eyes, one nose. The whole tree is its hair. It is not a building with a mural on it. It's a face wearing a tree.
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