Connexus and I connected through the School of Visual Arts. Connexus was a dealer & service provider of Retail Pro software and their retail point of sale systems. Located in the Wall Street area of Manhattan, they wanted something to bring a uniqueness to their client conference room. The original design concept was to depict a storefront with their product displayed through one of the windows. By the end of our initial meeting I had pitched that rather than do one specific storefront, I could create a mélange of storefronts. My logic for this change was that any one storefront could alienate a client from a different type of business. For example: a sporting goods retail business may not identify with a jewlery or clothing storefront, and vice versa. The people at Connexus loved the idea and told me to get started. Camera in hand, I traveled to Boston’s Newbury Street where I knew existed a concentration of different & unique storefronts. I returned to New York with a bag full of reference photos and rendered the first sketch. The client, after seeing the sketch requested some minor changes to the ‘outside’, which I did in a second sketch. The second sketch was approved, and work began. I chose to wrap the mural partially around the adjacent wall to add depth to the image. This project was executed after business hours and took roughly a month to complete.