Location: 2102 2nd Avenue (Parking Lot)
Artist Statement 
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Sometimes the best story a mural can tell is the story of how it got made. The freehand piece by Rime — a legendary graffiti artist out of New York — is one of those works where the process and the product are almost inseparable.
Rime happened to be in Seattle, happened to know the right people, and happened to find a wall available. No grid. No projection. No sketch. He simply went up on the lift and started painting, working entirely from instinct and experience across a surface that would daunt most artists even with careful preparation. Every element of the finished piece came directly from his hand and his head, improvised and refined over the course of a week.
The working schedule became its own kind of performance. Rime and his crew refused to start before 4pm every day, then worked as late as they could push it — the lift becoming a kind of elevated studio, open to the night. Things appeared on the wall. Things disappeared. New ideas surfaced and got painted over. Those who watched it develop day by day described the whole week as a party, a happening, a thing unto itself. The festival crew nicknamed it Club Lift.
It’s a useful reminder that graffiti and public mural art come from the same creative spirit, even when they look different or play by different rules. Rime’s piece doesn’t ask permission for what it is. It just is — confident, freehand, and completely alive.
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