New mural completed at Hope Center in Clearlake
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Another new mural has been completed in the city of Clearlake.
Violet and Michael Divine created the artwork on the Hope Center building on Emerson Street.
Hope Rising, which runs the center, is a resource for people experiencing homelessness and substance abuse issues.
They brought in the Lake County Rural Arts Initiative to help make an inspirational mural happen on the Hope Center building.
Michael and Violet Divine’s image, using the dragonfly to represent the Hope Center’s story of healing and renewal, was chosen for the mural.
In the mural, the dragonfly rises out of the muck and continues to evolve. The panels trace the life cycle of the dragonfly as it grows the eggs in the chaos on the left and follows its transition into the world and the light on the right side, leaving the river behind.
The Lake County Rural Arts Initiative has been working with organizations to facilitate murals as a part of their “arts destination for economic growth” goal for Lake County.
The Divines also created a bass mural at Redbud Park in Clearlake.