About Jason: My name is Jason Harvin and I'm the owner of Wayward Walls & Interiors, LLC. Over the past few years I've come to find a deep passion for space transformation through art & painting, specifically, geometric dominate design. My mural design work can be found in restaurants, dentist offices, law offices, corporate offices, gyms, salons, coffee shops, throughout Tampa Bay & Orlando.
About VHS Mall Memories: The idea behind “VHS Mall Memories” was to try and fuse multiple layers of nostalgia when thinking about the 50yrs of memories that the Countryside Mall has experienced. The VHS cassette tape was also released and started to be distributed to the public starting in 1975, the same year the mall opened.
From afar the mural will appear to be any standard retro VHS tape but as the viewer gets close enough to read the words on the vhs case they’ll notice it’s full of hidden messages relating directly to the history of the mall, specifically, 1975.
For example, the box showing CM ‘75, WSC ‘02, WC, ‘05, are direct references to the malls name changes since inception. With Countryside Mall being first in 1975, then changing its name to Westfield Shoppingtown countryside in 2002, and then Westfield Countryside in 2005. Another hidden message is in the barcode on the VHS case showing the malls address (27001) and the zip code (33761) as numbers on the barcode.
More from Jason Harvin: www.waywardwalls.com