Golden Hour

'The Golden Hour' is a visual story about growth and interconnection. The artists, Muralisto, worked with students from Glenwood High School to create collage mandalas of local flora and fauna. These have been interwoven throughout the mural to remind us that everything has a season and a cycle.

This mural invites the community to be part of the story, to witness ourselves in our surroundings and our community and to participate in acts of reciprocity, presence and kindness. The golden hour is a moment in which we all pause to marvel at the world dressed in glinting warmth and gold and take a deep breath.

The mural's composition references golden and peach skies, dandelion yellow, and lavender purple, found alongside the grey blues of thunder and summer storms, representing the many changing faces of the sky.

Notice the seed nestled in soil and follow its journey, from dawn to dusk, through the seasons to blossom into the Eucalypt, the Flannel Flower, the Acacia tree and the Golden Guinea Vine.

Commissioned by Landcom for Sydney Metro Northwest Places public art program, painted all across the Bella Vista Pocket Park.

Our life like a breath, then, a give
and a take, a bridge, a central movement,
between singing a separate self
and learning to be selfless.
David White, from 'A Seeming Stillness'.