He told People magazine in February 1976 that, "I wanted to do in art what Beethoven had done in music.
Sky eventually got $3,000 from the Arts Commission, went to work in February 1975, and completed the trompe-l'oeil mural in October of that year. It wouldn't fund the artwork, either, but the bank did agree to let Sky paint the mural on one of its outside walls - under the condition that Sky would paint it over if the bank didn't like it, and that he wasn't a communist. Sky applied to the South Carolina Arts Commission several times before the Commission accepted his concept design, but it wouldn't fund the project (At the time, there wasn't a single outdoor mural anywhere in South Carolina). and that's when the idea for Tunnelvision came to him in a dream: an outdoor wall-size mural of the setting - or possibly rising - sun, visible through a highway tunnel blasted out of solid rock. Until 1974, "Blue Sky" was an artist named Warren Edward Johnson who painted on canvas and lived in Columbia, South Carolina.
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