One day running straight into the next, and the next, and the next. I’d started using sleeping pills in my last semester of university, having begged my doctor for a prescription to stop the torture of lying awake night after night. I’d pop it under my tongue to slide from the shackles of adrenaline. Wrenching myself from my love affair with the tiny white disc. Hot milk with honey, yoga postures with my feet above my head, no chocolate after three in the afternoon-I had tried it all. I would lie awake at night aching for rest and relief from my racing mind. And I predict that Nashville’s artists will be in the thick of it.“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” ~Sonia Ricotti Here is a page with more general information about volunteering and donating for tornado relief.Įast Nashville will rebuild, it will prosper, thought scars will remain. If you want to help artists who have been hurt by the storm, start here. People wanted to know what it all used to look like, to see what had been lost, to remember what things that had been broken looked like when they were intact. Tuesday, after the storm, I had more visitors to this site than I’m used to. The one by Troy Duff at Burger Up is intact, but given the state of the building, it’s hard to say if it will last. I’ve never put one on the blog for some reason. Another example of this is the East Nashville “EN” murals, which are sponsored by Chamber East. Here’s what the eagle looked like undamaged.) I suppose there’s a lesson to be learned about impermanence and not assuming everything will always be what you expect. (While it’s relatively intact, the work Radford did on the other side of the building is largely gone, the wall having collapsed. I never got around to writing about it because I was saving it for a patriotic holiday. The featured mural of the eagle at the start of this post is by Kim Radford and lies on the east wall of Elite Bonding. The front side of Gold Electric once had a really fun mural, now shattered in the wake of the storm. You need to know to walk up the alley behind Beyond the Edge to find them, or what’s left of them now. Hunt Supply and Gold Electric Tattoo across the alley are something of neighborhood secrets. This pile of painted concrete blocks is all that’s left of the murals that once wrapped around Hunt Supply Co., a skateboard gear supplier whose building completely collapsed. Other losses attracted fewer news cameras, but were still quite devastating. A simple image that speaks to the neighborhood’s musical heritage and its enduring strength. One image more than any other has been the symbol of the tornado damage, Basement’s East’s fallen wall of concert murals with its still intact version of the I Believe in Nashville mural (based on a design by Adrien Saporiti of DCXV Industries). So when a tornado plowed down Main and through Five Points and beyond very early Tuesday morning, it inevitably took a lot of art with it. Art is part of this neighborhood’s identity. And many ultimately did, so many that the east side, from Fifth and Main to well up Gallatin Road, became the most art dense neighborhood in Nashville. Arguably, it really started in East Nashville over four years ago, with Chamber East doing much to cajole eastside businesses to take a chance on art. In the last few years, there has been a mural renaissance in Nashville, and it’s been my honor to chronicle it. In the face of that, what’s a little art? Families without homes, employees without paychecks. Much of what has been broken will take months to rebuild, if ever. In Nashville, and communities to the east, homes and businesses have been shattered and destroyed, lives lost.
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