Persausive Device

       As part of the Time-Based Arts Festival in 2008, this painted mural was installed in the lobby of the Wieden & Kennedy Building in Portland, Oregon.  The piece was derived from a 1922 article in the New York Times about a law suit against Oregon Senator R.N. Stanfield. The building was owned at that time by the senator and used as a wool storage facility for his company, The Columbia Wool Growers.  Claims had proven that Standfield had defrauded his creditors, who were Idaho and Central Oregon Framers that fed his livestock.  The Idaho National Bank pressed 

charges against Senator Stanfield and used his property deed, a mortgage of $200,000, as leverage. The use of the building in Stanfield’s legal battle was an interesting way to look at how the history and function of the building changed.  

      Wieden & Kennedy, a global advertising agency, currently owns the building.  It is ironic that the building that was once used by the bankers to influence their control is now used in advertising.  A take-away poster was created to accompany the mural and to present my project Results Under Action.