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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Julia Williams
Description
In response to the eight o’clock howl, Julia (aka the Designosaur) is designing a mural of howling wolves in her signature brightly colored illustrative style. With the mural, Julia wants to immortalize the nightly act of collective appreciation for the COVID-19 frontline workers. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
A
It's
been
pretty
difficult.
Honestly,
I
at
the
beginning,
I
had
a
lot
of
projects
cancelled
and
you
know
felt
like
I
couldn't
go
out
and
get
any
more
work,
because
most
of
the
you
know,
industries
that
I
work
in
were
really
suffering,
so
I
had
to
kind
of
adapt
and
do
some
different
things
and
in
terms
of
just
I
don't
know
just
how
it's
affected
my
life
in
other
ways.
A
I
really,
I
really
need
a
lot
of
like
you,
know,
input
and
stimulation
and
like
new
experiences
and
stuff,
to
be
able
to
be
really
creative
and
like
make
my
art
really
effectively
and
also
being
around
like
a
community
of
inspiring
people.
Is
I
really
rely
on
that
so
having
all
of
that
kind
of
go
away
has
been
really
difficult.
A
There's
this
place
that
I
ride
my
bike
all
the
time
just
over
by
gun
barrel
near
king
supers,
that
it's
this
bike
underpass
that
has
this
huge
cement
wall,
that's
completely
blank
and
I
always
wanted
to
paint
it.
So
I
was
like
you
know.
It
would
be
great
if
I
could
do
a
big
mural
on
that
that
could
foster
community
connection
for
the
gun
barrel
community.
A
So
my
work
project
was
to
do
a
few
initial
designs
for
that
and
then
to
get
feedback
from
my
community
about
it.
So
I
don't
know
if
you
had
participated
at
all
in
the
8
p.m.
Howling
that
was
going
around
during
the
lockdown.
I
thought
it
would
be
super
fun
to
do
a
pack
of
wolves
howling
at
the
moon,
because
so
many
people
in
our
neighborhood
were
doing
that
during
during
when
the
lockdown
was
the
worst.
I
was
like.
A
A
Just
that
I
hope
I
don't
know.
I
hope
that
other
artists
are
finding
ways
to
you
know
make
this
time
as
productive
and
not
you
know
not
losing
hope,
because
there
there
is
work
out
there
and
I've
been
picking
up
more
work
recently,
and
you
know
this
will
be
over
sometime
but
yeah.
It's
kind
of
it's
kind
of
hard
right
now,
so
hopefully
we
can.
All
you
know,
stick
together
and
look
forward
to
when
we
can
see
each
other
in
person
again.