{"id":30642,"date":"2023-02-28T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:09:54","slug":"lakeland-artist-adds-mural-for-senior-facility-residents-with-sprawling-lakeshore-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/28\/lakeland-artist-adds-mural-for-senior-facility-residents-with-sprawling-lakeshore-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland artist adds mural for senior facility residents with sprawling lakeshore image<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Collins, one of Lakeland\u2019s best-known artists, has been toiling for months to create a watery panorama on the walls of a walkway at Florida Presbyterian Homes. The painted panels, which face inward toward the assisted-living facility in a recessed nook, evoke the scenery available to residents on the opposite side of the building, which faces Lake Hunter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cThe name of this street out front is Lakeside Avenue,\u201d Collins said Thursday morning during a break from painting. \u201cEverybody in this building lives on Lakeside Avenue, but only the ones in front can see the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has made Collins, 74, something of an artist-in-residence. He and his wife, Alice, moved from the South Lake Morton neighborhood to a villa on the Florida Presbyterian Homes campus early last year. Alice\u2019s parents had previously lived in the retirement community for about 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s stunning,\u201d Joe Xanthopoulos, CEO and Executive Director of Florida Presbyterian Homes, said of the project. \u201cHe\u2019s an amazing talent. He\u2019s going to bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Collins might be best known for his street art, much of which was done without permission from local government. One of his first public pieces was a swan drawn with chalk on one of the sidewalks downtown, used as an advertisement for the 2013 Chalk Festival. Come the next morning, the art was pressure washed away. The reason? When the work isn\u2019t pre-approved, there\u2019s no way to distinguish between art and graffiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This prompted Collins to react several weeks later, drawing an 8X12-foot copy of Van Gogh\u2019s Starry Night<\/em>, one of the most famous pieces of art to exist, on a downtown sidewalk. In theory, there should have been no question whether this well-known painting was art or not. Clearly, a copy of a piece that hangs in a New York City museum is art. Not necessarily. Collins found that his version of Starry Night<\/em> was pressure washed by the next morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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