The Esquimalt United Church mural team decided that a rainbow would look great in their mural and show visual value, as the mural is literally on the Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society which fills the belly and feeds the soul. Hand painting a rainbow creek was an honour for me as an Esquimalt mural artist to showcase inclusion, diversity and a bit of symbolic illusionary magic in public wall art.
The Bickford Tower is a lighthouse at CFB Esquimalt on Grant Knoll that overlooks the Eaquimalt Harbour. It can only be seen from the water by residents not in the Navy. We added this little known lighthouse to the mural so we could give exposure to the only existing Canadian coastal defence signaling tower that greatly adds to the character of Esquimalt.
A chinook or king salmon jumps out of the rainbow creek towards viewers of the exterior wall mural. Where I originally imagined a rainbow being a flat colour graphic, we made the blue band flowing water with added wildlife and movement to bring realism and life to the rainbow metaphor.
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