Anne Marie must have gone through four or five total layers of paint to get to where she is right now; during the first couple of days of painting last summer, John just asked anyone who wanted to bring some cans of spray paint and do whatever they wanted. Then, later, almost all of that was painted over by the more artistically inclined to make the bus’s aesthetic a little bit less chaotic. You can see the result on Flickr; I would go so far as to describe it as damn fine.
But there were a couple of windows that had been spray painted over that we were still unsatisfied with. So while we re-installed the veggie tank and unbolted the fridge, Dan (left) and Peter (right) were trying to figure out what to replace it with. They considered everything from cuneiform to some kind of molecular symbol, but in the end, they decided the simpler the better. So while a group of four people held Dan’s half-naked, splayed body up to the window, Peter traced around it, using him as a human stencil. The result is what you see above. The t-shirt wrapped around Dan’s head was to prevent him from the paint fumes.
Via John, here’s some video of the magic happening:
Getting that window covered was one of the very last pieces sliding into place. By the time you read this, we’ll probably already be on the road.
