Comstock's magazine 0519 - May 2019 | Page 71

When artist Shane Grammer learned a man who was “like a second dad” to him had lost a loved one in the Camp Fire, he asked to honor the woman, Hel- en Pace, 84, with a mural in her likeness. Pace was the mother of the man’s sister-in-law. “That was a real tough one because it was working off a photo- graph of somebody,” says photographer Terence Duffy. “You walk around, and you find little things — elements of her world.” May 2019 | comstocksmag.com 71