What has come to be called the "Mural Section" is approximately the last five hundred feet of the work and the end of Section I, which began as single canvases while I was still working in the Third Avenue Studio. The chronological period covered in the Mural Section begins in 1938 and ends with the end of WW II in 1945. It is the scale and size of the Mural Section that I think I had always wanted the work to be. The individual canvases, while of great interest to me, always remained art pieces; to be viewed as art the way any framed art is viewed, regardless of its content or level of accomplishment.
For me, as I have mentioned elsewhere in this website, it was always my wish to enter into the action of what I was presenting on the canvases. I had imagined that it would be possible to do that if I could technically the problem of creating these larger continuous images so that one could not but help to be drawn in to the action rather than merely stand back and view it as one could with the individual canvases.
The Mural Section was photographed in two sessions: one at the Amphlett Studio and the final one at the Newport YMCA Studio. The work was photographed with four columns in each shot and then stitched together to make the larger images seen here. The last image in this gallery shows a point where sixteen rows were to go but were destroyed. The final image of the work, despite the missing columns of canvases, was always intended as the final image of DIE PLAGE. It is written on that last image, "I am thankful that it is over."