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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.

Support for Black Lives Matter can been seen all across DC in more and less formal contexts. Here, the message is carried by a beautiful, colorful bird, painted on a plywood piece that covers a shuttered theater on the city’s 14th Street. BLM, business closures due to Covid, the need and vulnerability of the arts in this context, and the ever present image of plywood-covered windows – these are the emblems of our current times. The bird here brings a spot of light and color, albeit a temporary one.

A blue gecko in bas relief climbs towards the street sign for the Rue Luchet

An etching of flowers and a tree trunk in a space where a window used to be

Painted with humor on a cement bollard.
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn’t a rock
It was a rock lobster
Rock lobster

Two parrots decorate the outside of a building that serves as an office for the parking attendants of this large, public parking lot in Avignon, France

A toucan, or many, grace(s) the side of a small building that serves as an office for the parking attendant of this large public parking lot in Avigon, France.