Never Look Away — A three-story-tall mural celebrating LGBTQ icons

It’s close to 10 p.m. on a Thursday in downtown Portland. The warm weather has roused higher than usual foot traffic in a city that’s still slowly stretching and yawning from its pandemic slumber.

Near the North Park Blocks, a bright projection of a drawing gleams across two building walls, covering almost an entire city block.

It attracts the attention of passersby, drawing some of them instinctually towards the light.

The people fluttering near the projector, understandably, have questions, “So you guys put the outline on and then someone paints over it? All that up there is just an outline?”