It’s Thursday afternoon at Greenlife Grocery, and County Commissioner Tim Boyd sits with artist Jack Wyrick, her laptop computer open.
The two are going over plans for the newly elected commissioner’s first big project – the Bachman Tubes in East Ridge – and they’re talking about murals.
Wyrick says she’s still working on the design she and another artist, Shaun LaRose, will put on the outside walls of the tunnel.
“We’re evoking the pioneering spirit of East Ridge,” Wyrick says, describing an image that will be a mix of urban scenes, the city skyline and mountains.
The sketch is not ready yet, but the canvas is. The walls of the Bachman Tubes leading into East Ridge are, in Mayor Mike Steele’s words, “just not very attractive.”