Dreams take Flight

If you visit the Al!ve Fitness Center on the west side of Charlotte, Michigan, there is a very good chance that the first person that you will meet will be Tammy Hernandez. She is the receptionist/greeter.

It is very likely that she will be sitting at a table and immersed in some project before she stands up to greet you as you come through the sliding glass doors.

For example:

Her last project was a three-dimensional mural. The silhouette of a small girl is on the left. An ever=expanding and increasingly dense swirl of butterflies sweep from left-to-right. The girl appears to be holding a Kindle or other, similar reading device. The title reads "Dreams Take Flight".

Since this mural borders the walking track that winds through the facility, I get to study it 18 times during our 40 minute walk. I started to notice details. The wings of the butterflies move! The background that the little girl is standing on is a slightly out-of-focus, monochromatic cityscape or mountainscape (like Dickens' London or Tolkein's Mordor).

Tammy researched the subject, look at other artists work and she decided that she could do better. She cut out the girl and every butterfly out of construction paper and glued them in place. She sponge-painted the cityscape. 

It is a heck of an advertisement for reading in general and Kindle type devices in particular.