On site
Two weeks on the DEN9 entrance, in one minute
Scaffold up, wall primed, 47 feet of Colorado laid in by hand. Filmed across the build and cut down by Melanie.
Case study
Six permanent installations across three Colorado fulfillment centers, plus a rolling program of seasonal window displays that has run since October 2025.
It started with a mountain goat painted on panels in the studio and delivered to DEN8 in Aurora. Since then: two entrance murals and three wellness center walls at DEN9 in Loveland, eleven painted safety panels at DEN3 in Thornton, and seasonal windows on rotation. Repeat work at this scale is not won on portfolios. It is won by being straightforward to have on site.
On site
Scaffold up, wall primed, 47 feet of Colorado laid in by hand. Filmed across the build and cut down by Melanie.
A 47 foot band above the security screening lanes, set 8 feet off the floor and rising to 16, in a building that had not opened yet. We worked it as an active construction site, under the contractor's protocols, against a fixed opening date.
The finished mural runs the full 329 square feet: a bighorn ram and a park ranger against the Colorado Rockies, pine forest and a sunset, built on a split complementary palette of orange and blue with green and purple accents, chosen to sit with Amazon's blue rather than fight it.
Two weeks of long days, brought forward at the client's request to land before the site opened.
The wall visitors face while they wait for badge clearance. A high-alpine scene: a lake below the peaks, conifers running down to the water, and a bighorn ram standing in the foreground at close to life size.
A 74 foot band tapering from four feet down to one, painted from scaffold at ten feet across a week and a half.
Thousands of people passed through while it went up, and that becomes part of the work. Explaining what is happening, being courteous, staying open. The painting is there to lift the space; while you are making it, so are you.
Three murals rather than one: a double sided glass wall, the wall behind the counter, and the entrance to the office. 322 square feet in total.
The glass wall is the hero, carrying DEN9's EPIC safety mantra as four illustrated panels: a ram herd climbing as one for Engagement, aspens intertwined on a single root system for Partnership, a switchback trail to the summit for Instruction, and a trout rising in clear water for Care, tied together by a sunrise at the center. The unpainted face is backed in white vinyl so light does not distort through from the painted side.
The palette comes from the Rockies at dawn and dusk: deep indigo and slate, sunset gold and amber, muted sage and pine, the silver of aspen. Cool blues settle the nervous system, which matters most for someone arriving for care, and the warm golds keep the room from feeling clinical. Contrast stays low throughout to avoid overstimulation.
Geometry runs through all three walls: lines and triangles breaking the landscape on the glass, a dodecahedron behind the counter, the full set of Platonic solids at the entrance arranged kaleidoscopically.
Staff kept stopping to watch, so they got handed a brush. Several of them painted a shape or a leaf into a wall they now walk past every day.
Alongside the permanent work, a rolling program on the entrance glazing, repainted through the year so the building marks the season for the people walking into it.
Fall brings harvest panels, Halloween characters drawn as Amazon smile-boxes, and Día de Muertos marigolds and papel picado across the doors.
Why it repeated