Holes In Bathroom Walls
Art students Emma Hoelsken, Yzzy Bellotti, and Sadie Bean-Osburn received approval from administrators to create a new school mural in the middle floor girls bathroom. By Alyson Meyers
Juniors Ysabella Bellotti,
was when we started talking
Sadie Bean-Osburn, and
about ideas for it,” Bellotti
Sophomore Emma Hoelsken
said.
have started to create a portfolio for a new mural
The mural has been designed
coming to Conifer High
to look like there are holes in
School. The three AP and
the wall that look into an-
Advanced art students are
other universe. There will be
undertaking the project after
“holes” in each of the stalls
a bathroom graffiti incident
and there will also be cracks
involving Bean-Osburn.
around the hand driers, sinks, and mirrors. This idea was
“What happened was one
inspired by a project Bellotti
day I got really bored. So I
has been working on in her
took a Sharpie and started
bedroom.
drawing right? Turns out very much,” Bean-Osburn said,
Vandalism in the girls’ bathroom using a Sharpie marker. The graffiti has since been covered by the custodial staff. photo by Sadie Bean-Osburn
and then making it look like it’s
“They were like, why don’t you
more students to help her build
a portal to another dimension,”
channel this into something more
a portfolio to present to Conifer
positive?”
Principal Wesley Paxton for
the school didn’t like that
approval.
“I’ve been painting a picture
Bellotti said. The artists will each take one stall and individualize their portal based
Bean-Osburn decided to channel
on what they envision.
her art into a new mural for the
“This mural project is kind of
school. The mural will be placed in
insane, but Emma heard through
the middle floor girls’ bathroom.
the grapevine that [Bean-Osburn]
“When you walk into each stall
Bean-Osburn then recruited two
was going to be starting it. So that
there will be a hole in the wall effect
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