Some rain slowed down the plan a few days, but as scheduled, the mud mural was finally taken down last week. If not for the bulldozers, there's a good chance it would be mostly down by now anyway; just a few pieces of twine were keeping it up on one side. With all the other points of reference gone now, it's hard to say exactly where it was, but between these two photos, we're seeing the empty ground where our wall of straw, sticks, and mud once stood for well over a year. (We did better than the straw and stick houses built by the first two little pigs, but not as well as the third house of bricks. Perhaps if we had baked the mud first...)
It was fun while it lasted. It involved dozens of people from the BAC and the community, and we got to experience an obscure but interesting process. We're not likely to build another one at the Boatworks. We'll have less unpaved ground when this construction is done, and project leader Kat Heitman has moved away to pursue graduate studies (though she has plans for more mud projects out there already). However, if anyone does want to try a cob building project, the whole process is documented on this blog. Just click on the words "MUD MURAL" at the bottom of this post to bring up the whole set.
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