text: I also can't help but take issue with the suggestion that it's a "dumb impulse" to honor respectable figures with monumental murals. Many of my murals for over 20 years have been based on the idea that it is worthwhile to honor humble, overlooked, or common people as a way of balancing the celebrity images we're constantly bombarded with. Cohen was a huge celebrity of course, but I was happy to make an exception here since that celebrity was transcended by his spirit of love and humility. Should an artist like Cohen really not have been honored on a large scale like this? His family would seem to disagree. I spent more than a  solid month working nearly every single day, sometimes 16 hour-straight workshifts to make this mural as beautiful as I possibly could in the time I had, out of love and devotion. If love and devotion are "dumb impulses" then so be it!