We did – and we still do.
Our building flanks one of Bremerton’s downtown alleys and graffiti is part of the alley scene. Last summer, when demolition was going on inside, some kids found their way from the alley into our building. Armed with a couple cans of fluorescent orange spray paint, they left some colorful messages across a concrete wall where our new kitchen was going to end up. We thought about leaving the messages exposed where they were but, well, they weren’t all that complimentary. So, instead, we photographed the nicer parts and turned them over to our design team.
Jeremy Southerland and Jennifer Paige got together with our firm’s graphic designer, Shao-Lin Cheng, and she produced an 18’ tall graphic for our kitchen, and one for the studio. Shao-Lin’s graphic blends the inherited graffiti with several photos of the building as we found it – which was pretty raw itself. The graphic yields an appropriate “back alley” feeling and offers a reminder of a piece of the building’s life prior to our renovation.
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