… a few murals seen on Boulevard Décarie in Montreal.
below: By Cecile Gariepy, holding up blue cube houses and showing them to each other in “Chez Nous” on a wall of Habitations Bourret housing project. a gift from the organization MU to the Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal (OMHM) for their 50th anniversary. 2019
below: Fonki painting of bulldogs and pugs
below: Tilly, another bulldog, painted on pink on what is now an empty building.
below: This portrait of Tilly was painted by Kevin Ledo.
below: This is the street art seen under the portrait of Tilly.
below: Dora the Explorer, in a Tim Hortons & Wendys parking lot.
Like many cities in Massachusetts, the organization Beyond Walls has been responsible for bringing great artists into the city to paint interesting murals that liven up public spaces and bring some colour to different neighbourhoods.
below: A David Zayas mural, “Otro Rumbo” covers the side of a building at Athenian Corner on Market Street. It contains many traditional Puerto Rican symbols and objects, including a rooster that symbolizes strength. For this mural, Project LEARN (Lowell Educational Alliance Resource Network) was also involved.
below: Evaristo Angurria (or Nestor Garcia painted this mural at the site of Mechanics Hall. I am not sure why, but he seems to like painting women with curlers in their hair.
below: Three pottery jugs representing “healing”, i.e whole – broken – fixed, a mural by Bryan Beyung that covers the side of the Elliot Church in the Back Central neighbourhood.
below: Celebrating the Irish heritage in the area and how they helped build Lowell. They were one of the first immigrants to arrive starting in the 1830s. They found labor working at the many mills in and around Lowell.
below: “Rayo Feliz” by Golden 305 at the Middlesex Community College’s Facilities building. (More of his work in Holyoke).
below: Also on the Lowell campus of Middlesex Community College, this time at the Cowan Center, is another mural called “Dream, Hunt, Make.” It was was painted by FONKi, a Cambodian street artist born in France but now living in Montreal.
“DREAM, HUNT, MAKE Within the eyes of the Dreamer, lies the keys of the future, Sweetness and bitterness you will taste, Focus in the Present, you must, Educate yourself, you will. . Obsessively, his dream, the Hunter chases, Darkness and light you will meet, Wise with knowledge, you must be, Continue flying, you will. . Under The Maker’s hands, life takes color. Creation is complex, An Art it is, to make it simple, To build, pure must be your intentions. . A Sweet Dreamer, Wise Hunter & Pure Maker you shall become.”
Eyes on the Streets 