Black Lives Matter Bird

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.

Octapus Submarine

Nature meets machine, and air and water intermingle in this fantastical depiction of an octapus-submarine on a wall of a large public parking lot in Avignon, France. With Escher-like elements, the mural spray paints itself, and clouds become miniature bodies of water for boats, divers, and a surfer.