The Stairway: Zero hour

Step 4

It's now almost midnight, and we're up the final stage.

There's an electric cord running all the way across the top part of the back wall. The principle wanted to know if there was some way we could run it into the mural.

I decided to make the wire into a trellis: this would make it's three dimensionality, the fact that i t stood in front of the mural, into an asset rather than a liability. It also allowed me to integrate the mural with the stair railing: the trellis would be connected to the corner of the railing.

Here is the wire, covered with painters'-tape to keep in clean:

Now we transform it into a trellis:

Here is a close up: