This mural is a portrait of Marguerite Young (1908-1995) an Indianapolis-born poet and novelist best known for her massive novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), which is often compared in scope and impact to James Joyce’s Ulysses. In the mural, the novelist is pictured as drinking from a mug from which a rainbow is spilling. The original photograph from which the mural is modeled was taken c. 1948, around the same time she started writing Miss MacIntosh.

The mural is painted on the side of the Tube Factory ArtSpace, the home of Big Car Collaborative, a non-profit art and design organization whose mission is to unify people through art.  It was created during an informal artist’s residency in Indianapolis in the summer of 2019.

Jules Muck, aka MuckRock, is a street artist from England who learned her craft in the 1990s from Lady Pink and many other legends of graffiti and hip-hop culture.  After working extensively in New York, she moved to Venice, California in 2008.  She currently works nationally and internationally, with major works in various locations including Miami’s famous Wynwood district, produced with Art Basel Miami. MuckRock’s street works are both invited and unsanctioned, and she has created work for gallery exhibitions.