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VOL. LXVI NO. 17 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1975 i Fireworks ai , ifyc ; By BILLY (OX (ianiecock Staff VVri lie wanted to be the he probably wouldn't realistic but still abs unconventional name cnm<> trn#? <sntrw? '<f would call his creati Last Sunday eveni veiled at the corner thousand awed spec shrouded the rear vn bled to the ground in that ripped it frorr L \ II' \(J liAi wniii/ /in ( exhibition, "Tunnelvi view of the sun from tunnel. The mural, p surrounding parking could actually trave cloud-blurred mount While the scene 01 including intricate < characteristics are ti 8BWWMI id a Bach 0 >u can iter ; first man on the mot make it, he directed .tract goals. In Jan ; started working to r ) gallons of paint ar on "Tunnelvision." ng at sunset, the Ge of Marion and Tayl< tators. The black /all of the Farm Cre the wake of a succt i the rooftop, tin incredible 75-foci ision" -- a mural that within the surrealis a in ted in proportions lot, gives the viewer 1 through the tunne am range in the ba< ffers a variety of th ietails of rock stru< he lighting displays < onata marked 11 L wain >n. When he realized the I his talents toward mor uary, the artist with th nake a vivid dream of h id nine months later, h nius of Blue Sky was u )r Streets before seven canvas covering, whic dit Banks Building, tur ?ssion of explosive bias! it by 50-foot panorami offered an extraordinar tic depths of a mountai ite scale to blend with th the odd sensation that h t ?.wl - L. il .! i i ciI hi i rain me uisuui ?kground. lought-provoking effect: dure, the most strikin [>f the sun and the plarn . the unveiling - . ?1 - on me Venus. As the da many members of it ;i rlniihln Inlrn Tt ?i I* UV^UMIV/ llirVV/ . At e majestic classica ie pea red on the plai is appeared, ie Such was the da "When I had thi n- mountain," said 1 il briefly considerec h other wall, n- "IT'S IIARI) to ts "and it was like t somewhere bene* ic To fulfill his en y South Carolina Ai n Banks Building a le "I'vebeen painti le he said, "and no t, frustrating. So 1 just bring my pa s, >g -t ceremonies of moon, rkness dulled the pink h< : the crowd gaped at the p; was getting brighter. Su 1 music, another almost ne, growing sharper at a wiling of Columbia's newt s dream, this vision of a t 31ue Sky, "it all occurrec I five other sites, but ther explain. I would touch tl he painting, the whole sc ith those bricks." (i ot the concept, Blue Sk ts Commission and got tl uthorities. ng around Columbia for < body ever saw my work figured if no one would c inting out to them." Please S reac srizon on Sund minting of the s ddenly, with a inperceptible rapid rate. V >st claim to fan unnel cutting t i on that wall e was never r his wall," he c ene, was aire; ly got a grant le cooperation juite a few ye< It got to t)i Mime to my s ee MITRAL. I rkioa.' :1i for t ' J*.-*. v-r lay night, un and id i touch of glow apenus had 1C. ' It's hrough a p 13 11 there. I touc| eally nny . It V ontinued, pain' ady there scen( from the th6l"t from the bent bricl trs now, e kind of hows, I'd " \A 'age Two initi i liiBpaww' ff-MiHi m* he sun hard to ex11. I would h this wall and i/as like the ring, the whole e, was already j somewhere sath those cs.' > htm hid artist Iflur Sky ? ? /