"Couldn't even imagine it." Painting sunflowers. "Have you ever done anything close to this scale before?" asked Smith. Work begins on the silos mural.Īll through the summer, and in all kinds of weather, a team of modern-day Michaelangelos turned the gray concrete into a soaring monument to the city, and to themselves. The work began in June, as local artists sprayed the gray cement with paint as blue as a perfect summer sky. "I'm gonna have to humble myself a little bit and, you know, get some other artists on this project to help me create this thing and finish this thing." "I was like, I can't do this alone!" he replied. Smith asked Gault, "Tell me, what went through your head when you got the call saying it's you?" Concept art for the final Glass City River Wall project.Īnd for the rest of it, Gault chose something that grows practically everywhere in the Midwest: sunflowers, a symbol of hope that he hoped would brighten the Toledo skyline for years to come. Gault is mainly a portrait guy, and when he looked at the three biggest silos he saw this: Three Native American faces, each over a hundred feet tall, a tribute to the original farmers of the land. So, so they put out a call for designers, and Los Angeles artist Gabriel Gault stepped up. You figure it out."Īnd then, they also needed to figure out what to paint in their mural. "There wound up being nothing to it but to do it. "We were completely naïve," Kasper told correspondent Tracy Smith. So, Toledo pitched in, from small-time donors to just about every big business in town. The silos' owners, the Archer Daniels Midland Company, put up some money, but the organizers still needed to raise around $750,000. They'd have to cover around 170,000 square feet of gray concrete, and paint is expensive. But that "great idea" would take an ocean of paint.
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