The Plains

This mural was created by Jordan Innes.



A geometric play on form, perspective, depth and scale inspired by autumn flights to and from the Wittenberg area.

One way to approach this mural is to imagine the landscape of Central Wisconsin in October, as seen from 10,000 feet, boiled down to its essential elements: shapes, colors, borders.  The plots of unharvested corn husks intersecting thick maple forests and fields of freshly tilled soil, gridded beyond the horizon.

The rigid squares lose their defining orientation when viewed from alternate perspectives, waxing and waning, protruding and receding with subtle shifts in focus, creating a natural conflict alternately soothing and unsettling.  The amorphous and saturated color spheres stand out in vivid contrast to the neutral tones of the cubes, enhancing the argument between fields of color which in turn invoke the rich history of conflict between natural and manmade barriers which have come to define the plains of the region.