The Liberty Store Mural, by Anthony P. Clubine, covers the entire ground level façade of a local retail store. Six life-sized shoppers are painted into the scene. The warm morning light and its shadows reminded me of the mood of an Edward Hopper painting, as I waited for an actual pedestrian to move down the sidewalk in front of it. Eventually a woman entered the frame, and as she reached the faux door in the middle of the scene, I made this image. She seems to vanish into Clubine's mural because she is the nearly same size as most of the painted figures. Her presence in this photograph defines my purpose in making it – to express art as an imitation of life. Anthony Clubine leaves a comment below -- he says that the people depicted in this mural represent "famous Auburn residents." Both he and I are essentially expressing similar ideas. Clubine uses local celebrities to inhabit the mural and bring art to life. By using an actual city building as a canvas for his mural, Clubine is also using art to imitate life here.