This mural was painted for a client’s private music room in the New Jersey countryside. He felt the room was bland and wanted to show his love for New Jersey with a map of the state. I presented him with the idea of a non-literal map with stylized water and a landscape of the forest surrounding the property. Using the colors from the rest of the room as the outer pieces of the map, I wanted to emphasize lush colors within the landscape and create a window into that world.