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Lovejoy

Lovejoy

video 45 min.
work in progress
completion: 2007
score by Miss Murgatroid

Lovejoy focuses on Portland's fabled Lovejoy Columns--a series of fanciful paintings on concrete freeway columns made by Greek immigrant Tom Stefopoulos who, in1948, began painting while working as a switchman for the rail yard. Renwick chronicled the turbulent efforts to save and restore the columns: a series of events that could only happen in Portland and a redevelopment story with a happy ending! 

If anyone has any photos of the columns or the railyard, please contact me.

For a little more history on the Lovejoy Columns, please visit
the website of James Harrison.