{"id":104173,"date":"2024-04-15T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=104173"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:08:34","slug":"watch-how-legal-is-this-a-local-mosaic-artist-uses-his-art-to-solve-one-of-chicagos-biggest-problems-potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/watch-how-legal-is-this-a-local-mosaic-artist-uses-his-art-to-solve-one-of-chicagos-biggest-problems-potholes\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: &#8216;How legal is this?:&#8217; A local mosaic artist uses his art to solve one of Chicago&#8217;s biggest problems \u2014 potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Aniyha Jones\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 25 years ago, while on a trip to Pompeii, Jim Bachor discovered mosaics and his life hasn\u2019t been the same since. After years of practice, he\u2019s using his mosaic art to fill potholes around the Chicago area. Although the longevity of his artwork is threatened by the City of Chicago\u2019s Department of Transportation crew, Bachor doesn\u2019t plan to stop anytime soon. This form of artwork is not only solving a problem but also touching the lives of residents all around Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Mosaic art\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/933357545?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Transcript:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JIM BACHOR:<\/strong> How legal is this? One, I don\u2019t want to get killed by a car. Two, I don\u2019t want to get arrested. I\u2019m too old for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> These were all things Jim Bachor says ran through his mind when he filled his first pothole with mosaic, an idea inspired by a trip to Pompeii.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> We were on a tour and the tour guide was showing us around the town, and he pointed out a mosaic and said, \u201cMarble and glass don\u2019t fade so this art looks essentially the way the artist intended 2,000 years ago,&#8221; and that thought of permanence blew me away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> That permanence propelled Bachor to travel to Italy to learn how to make mosaic art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> So I went there. I don\u2019t know, it was a week or a ten-day course on how to do it in the ancient way. Brought that information home and then started doing them as a hobby on the side when I got home from work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> After years of practice, Bachor had a bright idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> My neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago here, the street was pretty beat up. But there was one pothole in particular in front of the house that was kind of stubborn. It would get fixed. Three months later the asphalt would get popped out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> He said he knew the perfect solution: mosaic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> It was like 9 o\u2019clock at night in May of 2013, dark out. I\u2019ve got my, I used my boys\u2019 soccer cones as protection \u2014 that doesn\u2019t work as it turns out \u2014 and I filled that pothole with concrete and I brought my art out and installed it. It kind of goes on from there, but that\u2019s how it started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> News quickly spread, and various media outlets featured Bachor\u2019s art. Art he says has a purpose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> Everyone hates potholes, doesn\u2019t matter who you are. They\u2019re so relatable. And not always but sometimes my campaigns will be about universal loves like junk food or ice cream or flowers. So I like that contrast there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> A contrast Bachor took to Pilsen, a Chicago neighborhood known for its art community and no stranger to mosaics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>LUIS TUBENS:<\/strong> The late Francisco Mendoza, who\u2019s known as \u201cEl Maestro\u201d or \u201cThe Teacher\u201d and he worked with students all throughout the neighborhood of Pilsen on creating mosaics. He creates the ones that are on Jose Clemente Orozco school and there&#8217;s mosaics there and he also does the mosaics that are on Cooper Language Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> Tubens says murals are about the community and getting the younger generation involved. The J-Def Peace Project is carrying on that legacy. It was created to honor the life of Jeff Maldonado Jr., a young hip-hop artist in Pilsen, a victim of gun violence and died a day before his 19th birthday. The J-Def Peace Project provides a safe place for teen skill-building through the arts and celebrates Maldonaldo\u2019s creative legacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TUBENS:<\/strong> It\u2019s a message to the community that says, &#8220;Hey, this life didn\u2019t have to be cut short.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> The J-Def Peace Project mural is a permanent staple within the Pilsen community, but Bachor\u2019s pothole art is not. In fact, the majority of them have been paved over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BACHOR:<\/strong> The best-case scenario, they might last 5 years. The best-case scenario doesn\u2019t mean that the art fails, the art is still good, but the streets just get repaved on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>AUDREY MATHIS:<\/strong> Specifically, February was particularly productive. CDOT was able to fill more than 93,000 potholes in streets and alleyways which is a 63% increase compared to February of 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JONES:<\/strong> However, this won&#8217;t stop Bachor any time soon. Bachor looks to keep fixing potholes around Chicago and seeing his work at his brand-new gallery in Uptown. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Chicago, Aniyha Jones, Medill Reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Aniyha Jones is a sports media graduate student at Medill. 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