Light reflected off a splatter of bright yellow paint on Brooklyn Williams’ face as she rested her hand atop a three-step ladder.
The 18-year-old glanced down, dipped a brush into a cup of white paint and scraped off the excess. In one smooth sweep of the brush, the saturated bristles deposited the paint on the wall.
Each stroke brought Brooklyn closer to Fort Worth — a place where she grew up but to which she never felt connected. The senior at I.M. Terrell Academy inched back and admired her work. She’d completed only the base layer, but it would soon evolve into a picket fence in a mural painted on the Lowden Street bridge in south Fort Worth…