It stretches for almost a whole block of Hargett Street: a collection of faces and artifacts from Raleigh’s history that scrolls from left to right like a column of newspaper type.
That was the idea for Sean Kernick’s latest downtown mural, which fittingly stands outside The Raleigh Times, the city’s scrappy afternoon paper turned sprawling restaurant and bar, much of it decorated with what those ink-stained ghosts left behind.
Kernick wanted to tell the story of Raleigh’s storytellers, along with the subjects of some of its best stories, and have it unspool in a spray-paint collage. It almost moves along with the cars that whiz past, passing like scenes through the window of a train…