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Learn much more about the details of the design here.

The mural features prominent portraits of many celebrated social workers and the families they serve. Many portraits were painstakingly fabricated in stained glass and colored mirror.

They remain highly representational and truly mark a personal high point for myself in the medium. Elements within the glass transfer seamlessly into the paint.

The glass portraits fall within 3 3'x20' "windows" set inside of faux stonework taken from the architecture of the historic 100+ year old fire house the mural is attached to.

The rightmost window features a portrait of "Julian" a young man who was a success story in the foster care system.

He trained and became a professional boxer as an adult, a serendipitous coincidence as the mural faces the site of Joe Frazier's famous gym.

Portrait 2. This woman, who is now a social worker, told a particularly intense story about her life, and her moment of personal breakthrough with her social worker, as a youth in the foster care system. This story was told to teens in Wordsworth Academy residential program. You could hear a pin drop.

ornate pattern work in the glass about Julian's portrait. The gray glass was pearlescent, and looks incredible under the sun.

The end of a brutal day one... mapped out the glass, and ready to grind away the paint to attach the glass directly to the brick.