The work of Juan Gris was an inspiration for the direction of Spoke’s visual vernacular and I’d liked to think of Spoke as a place where Juan Gris might have gathered with his fellow artist friends Matisse, Braque, Leger, Modigliani for a glass of wine.

More working sketches:
The line of bottle shapes/people working toward what in the end became a more abstracted final felt mural.

Color studies of more abstracted shapes

to be continued…the color palette gets reduced