Recruited by restaurant owner Kehar Singh to depict a 50 foot panoramic mural for a new restaurant. The dining room and menu will be based off of Singh's first, an upscale Indian restaurant called Peerce's in Baltimore Maryland. The mural was to be a decorative wallpaper canvas mural inspired by the South Indian native ecosystem, cultural practices, agriculture, and architecture. As well as this, homages to Singh's home city, Punjab, were to be included as well. The composition was to be inspired by decorative and historic Parisian wallpaper murals.
**It is important to note that this is a reimagination of the parisian wallpapers that the artist was given as a reference for aesthetic. The original wallpapers are extremely outdated and culturally and historically inaccurate. Although this mural is inspired by them in regards to general composition, all of the problematic exoticism that existed in the original has been replaced with real people, real native ecosystems, real buildings, and real histories. It is also important to state that this mural depicts a culture that the artist is not a part of. All research was done through interviews with immigrants from India who are staffed at Peerce's restaraunt, Kehar himself, and primary sources from the RISD research archives in regards to the natural ecology of the land being depicted.**
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50 ft. x 7 ft. acrylic on primed canvas
8 panels total to make one complete panoramic image.
8 panels total to make one complete panoramic image.
The mural will be installed indoors on a curved wall in the main dining room of the property. The restaurant is set to open in early 2025 on the coast of the Eastern Shore in Cambridge, Maryland.