Back in July, downtown Phoenix’s newest mural, “Through Her Eyes,” debuted and instantly grabbed people’s attention.
Stretching up the eastern side of the Saiya apartment building at First Avenue and McKinley Street, the striking work consisting of parallel 230-foot-tall strips colorfully depict a woman’s face gazing outward. It’s a vibrant and unmissable addition to the downtown skyline.
The mural is the vision of Scottsdale artist Leila Parnian, who spent months creating it with assistants and Maryland artists Danny Lorden, better known as D Lord, and Shawn Forton. They worked from swing-stage platforms suspended from steel cables above the city streets below…