Court C Murals ( 9. June 2010, 10:56 by Dave) ~ Ya gotta hold your tongue just right

There’s a little more color downtown this week than there was last week. And along with the color is a little more confusion. Court C has been infested with little squares of blue, yellow, black and maroon, all working together to form … what?

What, you think I’d just TELL you? After three weeks of meticulous, paint-in-my-hair labor?

They are 32 feet of 3 by 3 inch squares, each painted in a subtly different hue. (Did you catch that equation? That’s 1,024 squares. Shudder.) They are the product of more than 40 hours of work by 17 sixth- and seventh- graders from Seabury School, Seattle muralist Jose Orantes, two teachers and myself. They are NOT a throw-back to the mid-90s Magic Eye craze. They are much more attractive than the previous view from my desk. And they are most definitely a picture of something.

Go, check them out in person, and report back. Try squinting. Look at them through the reflection in a car window. Take a picture and squint at the image on the view screen. Stand a few feet back from your computer and squint at the pictures here. Take a wild guess and let us know what you come up with.