AR Murals

The AR Mural work is the public-scale version of the AR Linocut and AR Raku Headset series. The mural is a permanent, hand-painted image on a wall. The augmented reality layer is the secret second life that activates when someone passes by with their phone open.

The premise: a mural already does a particular kind of public work. It declares that a piece of a city belongs to its people, that art is a civic asset, that the wall facing the sidewalk is not just a wall. Adding an AR layer turns that declaration into a conversation: the wall sees you back, and shows you something only your generation of devices can show you.

Selected works in this lineage include installations at the Rothenberg Building, the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, and stage installations for TEDx Jackson Hole. Future planned work includes a mural cycle in Sedona that ties into the broader LightNet program.

The series sits inside a longer conversation about what cities will look like once AR glasses are as common as eyeglasses. The bet is that the most important art of the next twenty years will be the art that knows a phone is watching, and chooses to use that fact.

“The wall sees you back.”