I'm an artist.

I've been doing murals for almost well, over 30 years actually.

And I specialize in trompe l'oeil, which in French means trick of the eye.

And I like using this technique because what it does is it engages the viewer into believing something exists like an architectural anomaly or something like that when it actually doesn't and they have to investigate and say, oh, I thought that was real and they get closer to it and realize it's not.

Hi, I'm John Pugh and this is The Work Of Art.

I think that this is a great way to present ideas like this is this is a project I'm working.

I've actually it's been approved for the city of Ashland and it's on Main Street on the side of the Elks Lodge and I'm creating the illusion of what looks like first the building and then the build, we're making fun of the building's architecture by turning it into theater curtains and and opening it up and presenting this basically what ends up being a land acknowledgment for, in this case, this village that was at the entrance to Lithia Park called Where the Crow Lights, and here are the inhabitants of that village in this piece, gathering acorns and even grandma Aggie's over here, sharing stuff with the children and the sacred white deer and they're opening their original board houses.

Technique that I use on a lot of projects, it's a very minor thing, I'll break the picture plane, as you can see this looks like gathering curtains on top, but it's actually architectural non weight bearing architectural foam that'll attach to the top of the the roof parapet there and by breaking, it's still flat, but by breaking that picture plane just a little bit it really messes with the viewer and it allows me to make it an illusion look like it's not just on the wall but it's on the building.

I'm very excited about sharing this indigenous thinking, a portal into this indigenous thinking with the community.