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A sea captain stares in the distance while a ray and whale swim behind him. This mural was painted by a pair of artists called Wild Sketch who usually paint album covers rather than street art.

Open your eyes is the title for this mural on an underpass featuring a woman with flowing hair and a large, colorful bird. It was painted by a group of artists as part of a festival called Prenez Place, organized in 2017. It can mean take your seat (Avignon is famous for its theater festival) or take your space. Open to interpretation,

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An animal which symbolises Gentleness (ability to move through life and obstacles with grace)
A mural painted by “AVI” Avinash Kumar in Phoolbagan (Kolkata)

A painted metal door brings the seaside up from the coastal neighborhoods of Barcelona to the hilly and historical neighborhood of Gotica. The simple cafe tables seem to have a front seat view.

On a wall overlooking a schoolyard, a whale and dinosaur-aged flying creature co-exist.

A metal security gate is painted with an image of the seashore, bringing a cheery view to this simple cafe table on a side street in Barcelona. Even though the city is on the sea, this scene was taken many blocks away.

In a bustling part of Avignon’s old city center, by the university, a man naps with his dog. The image cleverly uses its environment to create a trompe l’oeil and transform these 2 dimensional characters into 3. During the Avignon theater festival, when this image was taken, the streets are particularly lively and filled with performers trying to lure the public to their shows. So this peaceful, napping man is a welcome image of calm. as he slowly frays around the edges – the inevitable conclusion of the palimpsest that is street art.

Shadow images of a cat and donkey grace a wall by a set of steps that wind up to the top of this provencal town and to the church.

Steps painted with a sky and balloons turn the world upside-down and invite the stroller to walk on air.

Although the elephant is earth’s largest land creature, it’s future is fragile. Illegal poaching, human/wildlife conflict, and reduction in natural habitat – all human induced – are pushing elephant populations to the brink of extinction. This image shows human skulls alongside a fully grown African elephant – perhaps as a reminder of the deadly consequences of our negative interactions and influences on these highly organized, intelligent, and social animals. Looking closely, there also is an image of a small bee and the words, “you need us, more than we need you,” referring to the delicate interconnectedness we have with the smaller beasts, too, that reflects our own fragility and dependency on nature.