“Are you graffiti?”, asks one of the other.
Words matter! Are you graffiti? Of course not, I am more than that! I am a mural.
But what is the difference? Sometimes the difference is obvious but sometimes the line dividing graffiti from its bigger (and more important? more respected?) sibling is blurry.
It’s a question asked by an artist who left his/her mark on a concrete pillar in Girona.
Photo taken March 2023.
below: Green leaves growing everywhere in a piece by Mowcka
below: Another Mowcka piece with more green leaves. Long flowing hair and a cat mask add to the woman’s character.
below: Bald Eagle carrying a box with its fragile contents, by The End. (the end of animals)
below: A concrete pillar with a number of tags, slaps, and other graffiti.
below: Up high on a pillar, a black and blue box above a bird and a mosaic Super Mario character smashing something to smithereens. As an aside, that’s probably a camera up in the very corner keeping an eye on me as I click away.
below: Love in triplicate and something about Alice and La France.
below: Sugarlandia is Calling. It seems to be full of monkeys swinging from vines and parrots sitting amongst big leaves.
below: Doing the splits… or running in a very strange way. But when you’re green and have horns maybe no one questions what you do.
Photos taken March 2023
below: An intricate drawing of a moth and the possible mechanics of its wing, by ardif
below: Sitting above a window, the cat eyes the bird. Together they make a story. The bird with the goggles is the creation of nevoul_art (La petite Fée du Street Art) while the grinning cat was drawn and painted by liAXrt
below: Seahorse by Industrie Tarte – hippocampe nageant sur un mur. It’s been divided into sections – bavette, entrecote, collier, filet, faux filet, similar to the way a cow would be divided into cuts by a butcher.
below: And by the same artist, a buffalo. It’s been divided into sections too except this time they are labelled Wyoming, Minnesota, Colorado, and other American states.
below: Portrait by NJO972, a k a William Njo,
below: Monsta Julien’s contribution to the Love planet (#loveplanet) project by Street Art Rebellion.
below: Nora Simon’s project “Histoires Doubles” involves the merging of two paintings into one. This is number 79, “Force et détermination, Strength and determination” which is apparently a combination of Gustav Klimt and Edvard Munch (although I am not sure which paintings).
below: Teddy bear face in red
Catching a glimpse of yellow, Tintin from afar
below: Tintin and the captain – Captain Haddock, another character from the The Adventures of Tintin comics and books created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi. The mural was painted by Combo in 2018.
with other friends as well, all together in a small corner on Rue des Petits Carreaux in the 2nd Arrond.
below: Wild Wonder Woman – Quand la nuit nous transperce (or in English, When the night pierces us).
below: Boxer dog with a tear in his eye, “I don’t want to fight anymore” by Canvaz
below: White bearded but multicoloured skin Namaste partially hiding behind the bushes with a flower
Pink lady poster (Indie red studio?)
Photos taken March 2023
On Carrer de Blesa (Poble Sec), on the window shutters of Azoka Taberna, there are 4 brightly painted murals including Picasso-like “Azoka Modern Girl” by Pres Fusion.
below: Berol377 portrait of a young woman in pinks and blues.
below: This cubist painting of a pink woman with yellow and black hair is another work by of Pres Fusion.
below: Half and half – one side more realistic and the other more abstract. A collaboration between Berol377 and Pres Fusion.
Photos taken March 2023
There are now two large murals by the bus staton Ronda and both were painted by Okudart (aka Okuda San Miguel). They are titled, “The New Flamenco” and featured brightly coloured dancers with flowing dresses, fans, and flowers in their hair.
Photos taken February 2023
below: Some sort of art?
below: And another some art
below: Recycle yourself
below: He sits behind the glass.
below: Green hair, teal hair.
below: Rube stork in black and white
below: Trump as purple clown. Maybe the colour suits him!
below: The world in red and white.
below: Two faces and an arrow
below: Ouvre les yeux. La vie est belle/ bleue. Open your eyes, life is beautiful.
below: Not my World Cup … protesting the 2022 World Cup (football) being held in Dubai.
below: Priority mail
below: A cute little couple by Costah (aka Nuno Costah)
below: Grey Putas 
below: Love is blue
below: Question authority?
below: “A veces el cambio se siente como en arcoiris est blanco y negro” roughly translates from Spanish to English as “Sometimes the changes feel like the rainbows are black and white.”
below: On an old wall
below: Monkeys with weapons
below: … and a red mushroom
below: Fox under red
below: Batman!
below: Yes, it’s just a chicken. If you are wondering why I took a picture of a sticker with a chicken on it, you are not alone. I think that the couple walking behind me, who stopped to look at the pole too, were also confused!
below: One frog, two frog; green frog, red frog (doesn’t quite rhyme does it?)
below: Love and suicide and a question that is fraught with complications
below:Keep smiling … until next time!
Photos taken February 2023
On blackened windows in a row of abandoned houses in Barreiro (an area in Lisbon) there is a series of images.
below: Kouka Ntadi’s image of an African woman is the only signed piece.
Or maybe, “they do it with mirrors”. Her face was complete not too long ago but now she is missing a nose and part of her lower face. Pieces of mirror put together to create a portrait, the work of OSIR (OSIR_DES’p’EJO)
She is located near Lisbon Cathedral.
Photo taken mid February 2023
‘Out and About – Windows of Time’ is a large mural by Christiano De Araujo that features scenes from the social history of Weston village. Unfortunately, the (painted) young man who is sitting on the sidewalk and playing a guitar is hidden by the (real) car parked in front of the mural.
Eyes on the Streets 