How He Made That Mural

Artur Silva’s mural titled “136 Images from the Collection,” in the Indiana State Museum’s new Gallery One, is brimming with so many ideas and images that it includes a section visitors can walk on.
“People think of works of art as precious, as something that we need to preserve at a great cost,” said Silva, 46, whose work features photographs and digital images of items from the museum’s collection. “I look at art in a slightly different way. Art should be interacted with.”
He goes on: “My art is made for humans and I want to create opportunities for human connection, through materiality and ideas, three-dimensional ideas and spaces. Bringing it to the floor, it extends that invitation to the viewer to participate in a different way.”
Gallery One, which opened June 25 on the first floor of the museum, was designed to transform the visitor experience – to let them examine objects from different points of view, remix a piece of music, change the colors of artworks and, yes, step on a mural.