text: “In Loving Memory of Peter Cipra”, 2019, 271x201 inches, water-based pigments over previously painted substrate, is a mural composed of a centrally positioned #Reutersvärd triangle and three #octahedronal nets; in geometry a #net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of edge-joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the faces of the polyhedron. Polyhedral nets are a useful aid to the study of polyhedra and solid geometry in general, as they allow for physical models of polyhedra to be constructed from material such as thin cardboard.  The intention of depicting these three octahedronal nets encourages the viewer to associate the correlation between crystal structure of diamonds and the ambiguous meaning of net, perhaps connecting net to the internet, #IT being the dominant contemporary commercial industry of Seattle, or net to mean #fishing net, the once dominant commercial enterprise of historic #seattle.
  
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  The mural’s geographic narrative and memorial facet regarding Peter Cipra, is explained by Lornet Turnbull’s 2011 obituary.
  
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  In Seattle’s restaurant circles, Peter Cipra was a pioneer.
  
  In 1970, just two years after arriving in the U.S., the Czech immigrant started The Prague in Pioneer Square — later renaming it Labuznik — serving up classical European dishes at a time when few fine restaurants existed here.
  
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  Over the next 28 years as a restaurateur, Mr. Cipra was also a working chef who kept his hands on virtually everything that went on in his kitchen.
  
  He insisted on it, in fact; if he wasn’t at his restaurant, it meant the restaurant wasn’t open.
  
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  “He did all of his own butchering, all of his own stock, all of his own pastries,” said longtime friend Peter Miller, a Seattle architect and bookstore owner.
  
  “There was Peter making every single meal, every pepper steak, roasting his own peppers, making his own sauces. His pork!”
  
  Mr. Cipra, who closed Labuznik in 1998 and retired, died of pancreatic 