The Risleyites Mural

The mural to your left was painted by Marcy Jarvis in 1990.
"I was taking Jack Lambert's drawing class that semester and had been doing a lot of sketches of people hanging out in Tammany. I ended up making a collage of cut outs of everyone as a final project and took it to Kommittee to see if they wanted me to do something similar on the Hall.
At first I was just sketching all the neighbors on second floor (it originates around my doorway) but as it got going, people began asking to be put in, so I had a sign-up sheet. I left Cornell that Dec. and was only back for a few visits in the spring so I had talked to others about continuing the mural themselves, adding more faces and possibly even color, but no one ever did anything beyond the inevitable graffitti that crept in over the years.
I had been one of the artists for Mike Aushenker's STRIP!(Risley's cartoon mag) so the portrait of Renu Bora is a transcription of his own STRIP! portrait (Mike has on the STRIP! T-shirt). I think Julie Orringer was one of the ones interested in continuing it; she may have done her own portrait on there (she's got a couple books of fiction out). Other than that, I had people pose for me directly.
The only two on there who aren't from the second floor that year are my friend Tony and Heyltje Bond, who were two h.s. kids (friends of my family) whose grandfather had gone to Cornell with my grandfather and who were visiting me one weekend. I think Heyltje did her own portrait.
The angriest dog was a cartoon that David Lynch used to do and Bob had it up on his door every week so I put him in with Bob.
I am the one wearing the vintage BMTS T-shirt (Risley's band in 79-80) which was from my first term at Risley."