LifeTiles Murals
BEYOND THE WALL
A closer look.
Details to notice. Connections to explore.
An image that changes
The LifeTiles works are described as “movies on the wall.”
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.A Pony Express scene
One scene shows a rider with mail pouches crossing the prairie.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.The artist behind it
The directory credits Rufus Seder for LifeTiles Murals.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.Its Kansas setting
This mural is recorded at South 7th Street & Broadway Street, Marysville, KS, USA.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.
Description
LifeTiles Murals have been called "movies on the wall". A Pony Express rider gallops across the prairie, his long duster lifting in the wind to reveal the mail pouches.
In the second mural, a Model 119 steam locomotive from 1861 changes into a modern diesel locomotive, suggesting the technological process over the 140 years since Marysville became a railroad town.
The third mural depicts life in Marysville and important things that helped shape our town.
Each mural consists of 90 specialty made ribbed glass tiles. A series of images have been fused into the tiles in such a way that when the viewer moves in front of the mural, the artwork appears to move. Produced by Massachusetts artist Rufus Seder, the murals are a rare form of art, and the only ones of their kind in Kansas.
