進入光明

Into the Light mural
Hormel Center
James Hormel LGBTQIA Center Mural - Into the Light

壁畫中的人物名單

  • Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher
  • Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), Macedonian general, ruler
  • Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B.C.E.- C.E. 18), Roman poet
  • Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrian, C. E. 76-138), Roman ruler
  • Richard I (The Lion Heart, 1157-1199), British ruler
  • Rumi (Jelal al-Din, 1207-1273), Persian poet, mystic
  • Hafiz (Shams ud-Din Mohammed, d. 1389?), Persian poet
  • Donatello (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardo, 1386-1466), Italian sculptor
  • Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist, inventor, scientist
  • Vasco de Gama (1460-1524), Portuguese admiral, explorer
  • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman, philosopher
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian artist
  • Raphael (Raphael Santi, 1483-1520), Italian artist
  • Correggio (Antonio Allegri Correggio, 1494-1534), Italian artist
  • Suleiman I (1494-1566), Turkish sultan
  • Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini, 1500-1571), Italian sculptor, writer
  • Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1569-1609), Italian artist
  • Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian ruler
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British writer
  • Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S poet
  • Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse, reformer
  • Karl Ulrichs (1825-1895), German lawyer, sociologist, reformer
  • Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet
  • Seiku Okuhara (1837-1913), Japanese poet
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
  • We'Wha (Two-Spirit, 1849-1896) Zuni weaver, potter
  • Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish writer
  • Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German sociologist
  • Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer
  • Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. writer
  • Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Goudeket, 1873-1954), French writer
  • Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.-born writer, patron of the arts
  • Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), U.S. choreographer, dancer
  • Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), Polish musician
  • Aaron Copland (1900-1991), U.S. composer
  • Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), English-born U.S. writer
  • Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter
  • W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973), British poet, critic, scholar
  • Jean Genet (1910-1986), French writer
  • Bayard Rustin (1910-1987), U.S. political activist
  • Francis Bacon (1910-1992), Irish-born British painter
  • Tennessee Williams (1911-1985), U.S. playwright
  • Benjamin Britten (1913-1977), British composer
  • Carson McCullers (1917-1967), U.S. writer
  • James Baldwin (1924-1988), U.S. writer
  • Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970), Japanese writer
  • Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), U.S. playwright
  • Harvey Milk (1930-1978), U.S. politician, political activist
  • Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentine writer
  • Audre Lorde (1934-1992), U.S. writer
  • Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), Cuban-born U.S. writer
  • Randy Shilts (1951-1994), U.S. journalist, writer

         「進入光明」是同性戀中心天花板上的錯覺畫壁畫,是由Mark Evans和Charley Brown特別設計創作。設計經過了一年半的發展和改進,最後執行所用的方法在國內很罕見:用混合的大理石粉末和聚合物塗在畫布表面,以形成一種平滑及石膏一樣的表面,然後再附著鋁合金的枝葉。

 

       從1995年十一月至1996年三月他們在工作室里用許多不同的工藝和技巧,如抹布、手和上千的棉簽等為工具,以達到壁畫上銀葉焦赭的發光色調。 他們將圓形畫布分成兩個半圓形進行工作。1996年三月十三日兩個半圓形的畫布被粘結在一起,成為現在我們看到的直徑為二十二英尺的圓形屋頂壁畫。

 

       壁畫通過寓言故事描繪了男人、女人和孩子們共同協力從無知的黑暗走向智慧的光明。用朋友和同事作為模特兒,藝術家們對照片進行改變使他們變得無法辨認。列外的是以James C. Hormel為模特兒的照片,因為此中心是以他命名,而因為有Ayse和Robert Kenmore 的大力資助,才會有此壁畫。

 

       建築結構塊上的名字是來自不同國家不同時期的歷史人物,且他們都被認知是有同性戀人。名字是由美國圖書館協會的同性戀女同性戀雙性戀專責小組編制,由舊金山公共圖書館的工作人員提供選擇的藝術家名單。