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Living Waters
Mural by Lynn Golan

Footage by Shira Evergreen of Uplifted Ithaca.

May this prayer ripple out into the community, into the world, and inspire thoughtful questioning, meditation, conversation, & action.

Gratitude 
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This 30 ft. tall mural is a question, a conversation, a meditation, a prayer about our Global Waters - and our relationship to the Waters. Our Global Waters are one body, a massive system. From ocean, to creek, river, marsh, rain cloud, to the fluid running in our veins, We are deeply interconnected to and through Water.

This mural lifts up and honors Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, and Author of Farming While Black and Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, founder of Mission Blue. These women embody the spirit of the Waters - expansive, wise, interconnective, powerful. The mural honors our local and global kin, the cattails, american frog, sea turtles, coral reef, mycelium and mushrooms, the jellyfish, and local waterways Six Mile Creek and Taughannock Falls.

Our global waters are in crisis. Our marine kin are suffering, their communities being driven into extinction. We are destroying ourselves, our bodies (of water) are polluted. Look at what we are doing to the Waters, our essential life-force.
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Expansive Expression


This mural helped me realize that I am capable of anything I put my energy towards. Major thanks for all the healing hearts and hands who came out. There are so many ways to support one another. I feel held. Love is a community effort. Creation is communal.


Thanks to Painting Assistants:
Caleb R Thomas, Jake Kuhn, Alessandra Nicole Russo, Kaitlyn Cronin, Shannon Garity, Matt Madden, Ced Reagan, and Sarah Barden.

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Other Wonderful Helpers:
Sareanda and Indigo (place to stay, flowers), Nia Michelle Nunn (brainstorming logistics) & Alex Phillips (City Hall paperwork), John Hamilton (scaffold, ladder), Alex Colket (set up scraping), Julia Cassiniti (scaffold), John Tilitz (scaffold boards) and Alicia & Jonah (power), Connie Thomas (snacks), Rebecca Day Cutter (meals & ladder), Robyn Wishna (puzzle solver), and Rose Robitaille, Stephen Whitaker Jr (rock path)

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Organization Supporters:
Ithaca Murals, Southside Community Center, Visum Development Group/Live More Ithaca, Community Arts Partnership, Sustainable Tompkins, & so many Justice Walls 2019 cosponsors!
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Additional Great People who Visited: 
Devra Rivkin, Vivinne "Kala" Williams, Yen Ospina, ​Nancy Ramage, Tom Marino, Valerie Calendula & Rosie.
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Lynn Golan

Check out Lynn's passion for herbal medicine and other things going on in her life:
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lynngolan10@gmail.com 

Tell her you love her mural in Ithaca... and maybe you have a location where you'd like to see her paint another?

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