by Patti Connor
Staff Writer
Earthlings were in for a big surprise once demolition was completed on the LaRose building at the site of the new downtown library.
There, on the south wall of the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, someone had painstakingly created an out-of-this-world rendering of a spaceship in the process of touching down — or taking off — with its triangular-skulled, almond-eyed inhabitant solemnly saluting, in what would appear to be a nonmenacing fashion, toward some unseen humanoid wandering in the general direction of City Hall.
The intrepid artists were Mickey Faith and Jonathan Fletcher, who once lived in a loft next door.
The artists were totally alien to George Kinghorn, JMOMA’s curator and director of education.
“Actually,” said Kinghorn, who admitted to having no earthly idea what the mural was doing there, “it was quite a surprise to see that masterpiece, or maybe, not-so-masterpiece. But clearly, some element of creativity was involved.”