below: Hooligan and Zero Boy with masked Anonymous
below: John Lennon
below: “Pee on Hamas”
below: A cute little pink heart
below: Remand
below: “Where is Corky Lee?” Lee was an Asian-American photographer who died in 2021.
below: Artificial Scarcity on a fire and police call box
below: When I tried a google image search, I learned that naked or semi-naked women on rockets is a thing….
below: Nicole Ruggiero’s “A Moment of Bliss”. According to Ruggiero’s Instagram page, this image is a tribute to, and reimagination of, the original wallpaper, Bliss, from Windows XP way back in 2001. It was part of an exhibit titled, “SCREENSAVERS” in Seoul in 2024.
below: Femarchy multiple times and colors beside Black & Essential
below: Sign on a pole – “You don’t need it but you want to buy it!”
Conservano is a town in the Puglia region of Italy where there was once a large, high, blank, curved wall. The wall exists because of the hilly geography of the region. On top of the hill is a busy street with many bus stops; at the bottom is a large parking lot.
In the spring of 2022, a project was launched, “A Talk with the City” to paint the wall. Public artist, Eltono, painted the top part in colorful geometric shapes and the bottom part in large arches that reflect the many architectural arches seen in this city. The “inside” of each arch was left white so that other artists could add their contributions. A description of this process is on Eltono’s website.
below: Two night time images. A yellow crescent moon and a painting by Davide Curci of the Earth being held in someone’s hand.
below: Fire and water, or fire and ice, on either side of a very large green eye.
below: On a pole in front of the wall, a cute little drawing of a snail and a poem in Italian. Non Credo Nell’Amor (I don’t believe in love). Transcription of the poem is given below .
e mi raccomando ricordati di guardare sempre tutto i tuoi occhi devono essere ovunque. Sarai sguardo di coccinella di mosca di virus. Non perderti in chiacchiere e annota tutto, figlio mio userai cio che hai visto contro di me.
A very rough translation: and please remember to always look at everything your eyes must be everywhere. You will be ladybug-eyed of flies of viruses. Don’t waste time talking and write everything down, my son you will use what you saw against me.
A previous blog post showed some of the murals that can be seen in Maiden Lane in Windsor. At the south end of that lane is a parking lot where one more large mural by Enjoy Denial has been painted.
below: The woman’s portrait painted by Denial was shown previously; a small portion of the other Denial mural can be seen here on the right
below: A few images of different angles and views of the mural. In the first photo, a large replica of a highway 401 sign. Windsor is at the east end of the 401. There is also a sign in the mural pointing “To Canada, Bridge”; Windsor is home to the Ambassador Bridge that crosses the Detroit River.
below: “Welcome to Windsor” turned upside down.
below: “Everthing must change” and the Detroit Pistons basketball team.
below: And last, someone has added their own two cents to the mural
below: Silhouettes in the window – Willy, Edgar, Dorothy, Toto, and Edna
below: In autumn 2019, Daniel Bombardier a.k.a Denial or Enjoy Denial, painted this movie themed mural
below: Jessica Rabbit from ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ is portrayed on the far left side of the mural. She stands under a “Danger 10,000 volts” sign. Popcorn anyone?
below: Action! Charlie Chaplin and
below: More moments in cinema including Rosebud from Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’
Artist Alley and Maiden Lane, between Ouellete and Pellisier Streets, has provided a canvas for many street artists. Free 4 All Walls is an organization that has helped turn the alley into the art gallery that it has become. This blog post is a look at some of the murals that have been painted here.
below: A man in shorts, all in red, by Jarus.
below: A PURE Maple Syrup can makes an appearance in this mural. If you see any painting, or other form of graffiti featuring this can, you can assume that it is the work of Canadian artist ‘WhatisAdam’ aka WIA
below: Spy vs Spy, cartoon sharacters wearing wide brimmed hats. Black Spy vs White Spy, both with long pointy noses. These characters originally appeared in Mad magazine as early as 1961.
below:Nychos painted this strange cowboy. Weirdly realistic but very anatomical. I’m not sure how his hands stay in place.
below: Peace sign with bones
below: Now adding a green peace symbol beside the peace sign with bones
below: Another peace symbol
below: No guns, No war zone, Keep the mayor happy at all costs. More protest signs.
below: More Peace and Love
below: According to an Instagram post by the artist, Jason Garcia, this image was inspired by an aerial view of the Windsor/Detroit area. The cities in pink with the river between them.
below: It’s not Spiderman in that red costume… and that skull is rather creepy. The artist for this mural was Matt Gondek.
below: “.. And then things got better” in a mural by Denial.
below: “Denial loves you”.
below: Luigi! But he’s behind bars…..
below: Piccachu makes an appearance too (that’s a lot of cameras on his body!). This image bothers me a bit – the look on her face is not nice. Mind you, with a chipmunk stuffed in there she’s got to be uncomfortable. Ick. There is text on the mural (not in the photo) that says Graffiti Zombie
… a small lane in central Melbourne with lots of street art.
below: A very round face, a mysterious face. Is he sticking out his tongue? Where is his other eye? What happened to his neck? And then you could ask why his hand is drawn that way.
below: A very realistic drawing of a person with black hair, seated, with hands together wrapped around a glass jar. This wheatpaste piece of art has probably been strategically placed behind window bars. Unfortunately, the signature for this piece is also behind the bars.
below: Balloon and frying pan behind bars, by Tweet
below: Spread Love, not the Virus, a message brought to you by Mickey Mouse in a black Covid mask.
below: Raccoon by MyCuteCreatures on the top and a little guy with skull head and little black bat wings on his back.
below: The top one is probably a head.
below: Hairy purple creatures lurk in the lane.
below: White birds in flight behind the garbage bins.
below: Looking down Whitehart Lane
below: Paintings by Aki Yaguchi (female), floating girls and stars
Last summer, Chatham Ontario held its first mural festival event, Can Jam, and these are some of the murals that are now on some downtown walls.
below:Meghan Kehoe (aka MCK Studio) and Sarah Steele painted this very large woman behind the Capitol Theatre in downtown Chatham. Most of her hair is a bird’s nest with three shiny pink eggs. A small black and yellow bird stands on the nest.
below: A version of the Tooth Fairy, by Fel3000ft. Winged teeth and butterflies.
below: Rather plump, and very bright – blue, red, and purple birds sitting together on a red branch, by Crz Prz (aka Caesar Perez)
below:Sarah Steele also painted this musician duo.
below: Sunflowers, daisies, and a bee on a purple background in a mural by local artist, Sarah M. Robbins
There are 2 older murals in Chatham Ontario that depict some scenes from yesteryear. The first is at least 25 years old and shows a line of stores and businesses. Even the upper windows are part of the artwork. Just this week (mid June 2025) it was announced that a new mural would be painted here this summer. I have just discovered that there is a video on Facebook of this old mural being dismantled and removed. I must have been in Chatham the day before it was removed!
So…. for a limited time only, here it is (in two images)
below: People enjoying meal at the Savoy cafe while others are tempted by the desserts on display in the window.
below: Also in the row of businesses is Heintzman & Co Pianos, Lyons Tailoring, and Thomas Stone & Son (clothing?). People mingle on the street and a car drives past.
below: Ladies checking out what’s on display at the tailors, window shopping.
below: A girl plays a tune on a Heintzman piano while a family out for a drive, passes by.
The Historic Downtown Chatham Business Improvement Area (BIA) have chosen a design for a new mural that was created by local artist Ruth Ann Pearce. Apparently history will still be part of the theme but beyond that, a surprise awaits!
The second mural is newer but was painted by the same artist as the one above, C. Penelope Duchesne. Help was provided by Nancy Foulis, Bonnie Cernenac, Shannon Lindsay, Amy Maynard, Terry Nelmes, and John Reimer.
The mural is in three parts – on both the right and left side is a market scene.
“The old town hall at north end of the market, 1905” The central panel of the mural features the old Town Hall which was built in the 1850s. The market stretched out behind it. The city sold it in the 1950s; it was demolished some thirty years later.
Once upon a time, a very long time ago in fact, it used to be a shoe store on Barton Street. Now it provides exhibit wall space for street art artists. Almost two years ago I showed some photos that were taken here for the Wheat paste anti-gallery, (September 2023). The building still stands and the doors and windows are still covered with plywood. But now that plywood is taking on a life of its own as old wheatpastes fade and tear and new papers are added on top. This is how it looked mid-June 2025.
below: Oakwood Place and the old shoe store at Barton E and Ottawa.
Eyes on the Streets 