We painted a Greetings Tour mural directly onto the Route 66 Historic Brick Road in Illinois, a surface hand-laid in 1931 and still holding together. The design pays tribute to the original bricklayers who installed it, with details we improvised on-site, the kind of decisions you make when the surface demands flexibility and you’re committed to getting it right.
The brick was corrugated and unforgiving, and the open field threw wind at us constantly. Spray paint proved to be the tool that could handle both the texture and the conditions, building color and coverage where brush would’ve faltered. There’s something profoundly American about painting a roadside postcard on a ninety-year-old brick surface on the Mother Road. The layers are almost too neat to be accidental.