Mural “Work in progress”/ St Catharines, ON, Canada, 2025

This mural explores industrial heritage and collective labor as the foundation of progress. The work combines archival imagery of workers, engineers, and machinery with the recognizable visual language of a major industrial brand, forming a unified narrative about the era of manufacturing and belief in a technological future. The composition is structured as a continuous horizontal sequence — an analogy to an assembly line — where human effort, machines, and time operate within a shared rhythm. A cool blue-violet color palette emphasizes the technical nature of the scene while introducing a sense of distance and historical reflection. The mural engages with the urban environment as an open archive. It does not simply decorate the space, but restores visibility to the people whose everyday, often unnoticed labor shaped the industrial landscape and cultural identity of the twentieth century.