On The Wall Productions

Urban Harvest, StL manages community gardens throughout St. Louis. Their flagship project, FOOD ROOF, was on the roof of a very ananoymus building that no one could ever find. They commissioned us to design a landmark mural that would not only make the building easy to find, but to speak to the need for nourishment, of body mind and spirit. The video was created by our talented friend Calvin Tigre.

Jeff and Randy Vines, two of St. Louis’s most fervent cheerleaders, were very familiar with our work and one day hoped to collaborate on a signature mural for their building on the western edge of the Cherokee District in South St. Louis city.

We decided that a very strong visual statement, using a color palette from the 1970’s (their favorite decade), combined with architectural elements from three important St. Louis buildings, would not only define this area of town, but would provide an upbeat feel to what had otherwise been a bland corner.

It is now one of the most popular spots for selfies, right under the giant disco ball.

In 2015 Liza Fishbone joined with her father, Robert, to become Team Fishbone. Together they entered, and won a design competition over 19 other teams, sponsored by Phillips 66. This video does a good job of telling the story.

A wonderful story of not just the FOOD ROOF mural, this video by Julie Hinkle of the Higher Education Channel in St Louis (HEC) shows work from the last 45 years of mural making, as well as describes the collaboration between Liza Fishbone and her father, Robert.

This rare, black and white video from 1974, shot on some of the first portable video equipment ever made available, is a telling document of people’s reactions to our first mural, Wally the wall. Most upbeat, they also show people wondering , “Why would you such a thing?” The positive and life changing experience of this first mural inspired us to become life-long, public artists. The interviews are begun by Sarah Linquist, with Eric Von Schrader on the camera..

Acrylic on brick and cement, 72 shades of gray in 1200 squares, 30’ x 40’

In 1977, after two years of desgning and fund raising and convincing, we painted Lindy Squared on the old Lion Gas Building in downtown St. Louis. It quickly became a much visited and much loved landmark.

In 1981, after much protest and even contests in the Riverfront Times newspaper for ways to save it, the building was demolished to make way for a new corporate headquarters. This video shows the demolition party with some added time-lapse footage of it being painted, and later days of wrecking. See Lindy Squared under Special Projects for more details pictures and captions.