CONNECTIONS

A mural for the City of Orange

Tom Nussbaum 2025

Commissioned by PSEG

Painted by Malcolm Rolling, Hans Lundy, and Kaishon Way. 

About the mural

The mural design is a free-form abstraction inspired by patterns found in electrical distribution networks, and in a variety of textiles from around the world. 

This building houses an electrical sub-station that supplies and distributes power to our area, and is part of a much larger network of energy distribution. The mural imagery serves as a metaphor for the connections found in the electrical grid, and the connections our community has to the world around it. 

The name of our city is incorporated into the design; each letter of the word ORANGE is at the center of a large circular motif, and these are visually connected to each other and to a complex network of smaller shapes. 

The use of bright colors on a black background connects the mural to textiles from around the globe that use similar color combinations. Extraordinary examples can be found from almost every continent.  

These images show examples of how electrical distribution networks are visualized: