Photos: Work on Jessica Gonzales' mural at Park Place Mall
Local artist Jessica Gonzales is working nights on her mural, which when finished would be the largest in the state, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, September 26, 2024, Tucson, Ariz.
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Artist Jessica Gonzales sketches outlines with spray paint for her mural, Sonoran Skylines, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024. The mural will eventually cover approximately 26,000 square feet which, according to the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, would make it the largest in the state. Work on the painting is expected wrap up in late October.
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In the bucket of a boom lift, artist Jessica Gonzales consults her plan on her phone while working about 20 feet above the ground on her mural, Sonoran Skylines, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024.
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Jessica Gonzales gets into her safety harness to work from boom lift on her mural, Sonoran Skylines, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024, while her husband Dakin Martin, rolls a coat of green on a lower portion of the piece.
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Jessica Gonzales has to lean through the rails on a boom lift to get to the hard-to-reach places on her mural, Sonoran Skylines, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024.
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Dakin Martin works in a wall of red, applying paint on a portion of his wife Jessica Gonzales’ mural, Sonoran Skylines, on the southwest wall of the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024.
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The breadth and color of Jessica Gonzales’ mural, Sonoran Skylines, shines on the dark and near empty parking lot of the southwest section the Park Place Mall, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024. When completed the mural will also rise into the second story of the wall as well.
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Dakin Martin rolls on a coat of paint around midnight in the southwest parking lot of the Park Place Mall, whit his wife Jessica Gonzales on her mural, Sonoran Skylines, Tucson, Ariz., September 25, 2024.
Kelly Presnell
Photojournalist
