Empty wall turns into big, positive art

Last updated 11/24/2020 at 8:39am

Three UFOs are tucked inside a new mural featuring details of a waving U.S. flag on the side of a metal garage on SR-174. Robert Fields, left, gestures toward the art that he and artist Keith Powell, right, finished in July. - Scott Hunter photo

Robert Fields has been wanting a big piece of art on the side of his garage facing the highway to Bridgeport for more than a decade, and he got it this summer in collaboration with his longtime friend and artist Keith Powell.

A closeup of a billowing American flag brings the steel siding on Fields' shop to life, the stripes undulating like the Palouse hillsides near Pullman, which is not what F...

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