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LONGMONT — The murals that Longmont artist Gamma Acosta paints on his uncle’s vacant building at Third Avenue and Lashley Street are often temporary. At some point, a fresh coat of paint turns the wall back into a blank canvas.
But Acosta’s most recent piece — a 6-foot-by-24-foot mural that pays tribute to the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut — is being preserved.
The mural depicts six broken crayons, their shattered bits and pieces mingling together. Acosta added a small red heart on one side.
“It’s open to interpretations. People are gonna see a lot of deeper things than I realized,” he said.
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