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Painted for the City of Kamloops, BC, Canada in association with the Kamloops Graffiti Task Force. This was a community enhancement project. Prior to the mural, this wall was covered in graffiti (please see picture at the bottom of this page) and was an eye sore to the local residential community. The mural is approximately 6ft high by 150ft long and was completed in six days. It is located at the back of a park on Pemberton Terrace St. in Kamloops. The grass, mountains, eagle, and Lesra Martin were painted by Steve Stanczyk. The sky, clouds, and trees were painted by Doug Cariou.
Detail of Lesra Martin painted in the mural.
Lesra grew up in a Brooklyn, New York ghetto and could not read until
he was 15 years old. He eventually became a lawyer and is now a full time
motivational speaker for the awareness of illiteracy (which is why we
painted him with a book in his hands).
He was portrayed by the actor Vicellous Reon Shannon in the 1999 motion
picture drama, “The Hurricane,” which stars Denzel Washington
(a role for which he was nominated for an academy award) as the falsely
accused and imprisoned boxer, “Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter.”
The movie tells the story of how Lesra Martin was instrumental in Rubin’s
prison release. For more info, visit Lesra's
website.
This mural has been featured in the 2003 National Film Board of Canada
movie, “The Journey of
Lesra Martin.”
Detail of the eagle.
Detail of the trees.
This is what the wall looked like before we painted the mural. After the mural was finished, the city began to cut the grass and maintain the park area around the mural. The local community has benefited in many ways from the new public artwork and the graffiti crowd has moved on.