Where the Crow Lights

Concept design for a mural project in Downtown Ashland.

This retro-futuristic Chautauqua dome was the predecessor to the current Elizabethan Shakespeare Theatre, located at the entrance to what is now Lithia Park. The dome became the egg that “hatched” the idea for Angus Bowmer to build a new Globe Theatre on its foundation.

It was also once the site for Ashland Mills, the town’s namesake. Yet the roots grow much deeper as we go back farther, to the sacred place called ‘Where the Crow Lights’ - a centuries old Shasta village.

Ashland cast a spell on me long ago. There’s an enchanting mystical energy here, and the locals understand this. Just walking through Lithia Park at twilight is like being in a Maxfield Parrish landscape. The sweet creek sparkles through ancient trees and woodland rocks. There's a sacred forest here, and the indigenous have known this for thousands of years.

This Pre-Raphaelite scenery is being used as a set design, for a theatre within a theatre town mural. ‘Where the Crow Lights’ is a dramatic play production about the story of Ashland. It's the opening scene - a young native woman leans against an old oak contemplating creation

It’s a tumultuous tale about a search for harmony.

It’s a love story.

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