the last of Bonn

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Mary C

In the past few months I have posted three sets of pictures of Bonn murals and graffiti. The images that I am posting here are all that I have left from my time in Bonn. At this point, I have no plans to return so this is “the last of Bonn”. Of course, if anyone wants to send me pictures of more Bonn urban art (because I am sure that I missed some, or that there is more recent art/graffiti), I will be happy to post it with full credit.

below: “Einsusflug” and a tripping pigeon wearing its cool sunglasses.

below: “This zystem is our enemy”. To which someone has replied, “True that”.

below: Many of the sidewalk/traffic/utility boxes around central Bonn have been painted with scenes from the city. This is the Old City Hall (Altes Rathaus) that dates back to the 18th century. I have always liked how City Hall ‘translates’ to Rat House in German!

below: Another box, this one with very stylized, almost abstract, trees.

below: Images of Johannes Sebastien Bach (1685-1750), the German composer, are all over Bonn.

below: “Chin Up” On the outside looking in.

below: “‘Cuz this is NOT FINE!”

Photos taken October 2025

Previous Bonn posts:

1. Along Kolnstrasse

2. Hochstadenring

3. Together on a concrete wall

Dancing the Dance

Posted on August 4, 2026 by Mary C

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, turquoise flower

below: Dance the Dance My Girl,” is located in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Vancouver. It is a collaboration between Ari de la Mora and Irving Cano and it was painted as part of the 2017 Vancouver Mural Festival.

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, woman playing a saxophone

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, close up of fingers on the keys of a saxophone

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, man wearing a sombrero and playing a guitar

below: A woman in traditional clothing and jewelry, holding a very realistic looking heart and a pineapple. The latter symbolizes hospitality and abundance.

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, A woman in traditional clothing and jewelry, holding a very realistic looking heart and a pineapple.

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, colourful patterns in fabric of a woman's clothing

part of a mural, Dance the Dance My Girl by Ari de la Mora and Irving Cato in Vancouver, maple leaf

Photos taken April 2025

Tacna & Emancipacion

Posted on August 2, 2026 by Mary C

Street art murals seen in downtown Lima, at the corner of Av. Tacna and Av. Emancipacion

below: Selling shoes, sitting on the sidewalk under the sleeping guy with many ears.

below: Ignoring the yells as she walks past

A woman is walking past a mural on a wall. An open mouth is yelling with flames and blue lines coming out of it. It looks like she is being yelled at by the mural.

below: There are hands that point and open hands to hold

Two women are walking past a mural on a wall, there is a large hand that is part of the mural.

below: “Hoy soy libre, manana tambien” – today I am free, tomorrow as well

Street art in bright colours of the words, Hoy soy libre, manana tambien

below: plug in to grow, green power, electricity for life….

part of a street art painting, a hand is hold a red extension cord. A stem with a few leaves at one end has an electrical plug at the other end. The green plug is being inserted into the red extension cord outlet.

below: He comes to life

two men are painting a mural of a man. One man is standing on two buckets so that he can reach near the top of the wall

below: Painting

a man is painting a piece of street art on a street corner in Lima.

below: All smiles, with orange peels, by Toxicomano

A large face of a man in black and white on a black and red horizontal striped background. There are some garbage bags full of orange peels in front of the mural.

below: “Toxicomano”

face in black, on yellows, oranges and reds

below: hanging out on Tacna with the street art

People on the sidewalk passing by a large mural street art piece with colourful faces, Tacna Lima Peru

below: The dog is watching. “Ya te sabe” – already you know

below: partially hidden behind his hand

close up of a graffiti picture of a boy's face. He has his hand in front of his mouth and chin

below: Is she carrying a sweet and/or toxic load?

Black and white graffiti of a woman with a basket of fruit on her head. Pineapple hand grenade graffiti on the wall behind her.

below: Pineapple hand grenade

A stencil graffiti of a hand grenade that has a pineapple top. Black on a blue and red background. It could be a hand grenade or a pineapple

Photos taken March 2014 (some files, once lost have now been found)

hoardings wall in Kaka’ako

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Mary C

A wall of hoardings in Honolulu’s Kaka’ako district that was painted with street art murals during POW! WOW! Honolulu in 2020….. It features a mural by East Three (or East3) at one end, and a painting of a long haired Medusa-like character by Jay Howell at the other.

In between there are contributions by a couple of other artists including farpys_arts

below: Ghetto blasters, robots and fish

parts of two different murals, on the right a young man with a ghetto blaster on his shoulder beside a little robot and on the left, two fish

murals on hoardings in Kaka'ako honolulu, 4 humanoid characters by East3

below: Stop! In the name of love…. or something like that…..

part of a larger mural by Eastthree in Honolulu, creature singing or speaking into a microphone held close to its mouth, with one hand up in a 'stop' gesture

small figure, 3 D, standing at the bottom of a utility pole in front of a mural by East Three

part of a larger mural by Eastthree in the foreground, with other mural in the background,

wall of street art by different artists, in Honolulu

two street art pieces side by side, a blobby creature by far_pys on the right and a blue wave of water with a face on the left

below: She’s got a goofy grin as well as very long hair that seems to be home for quite a few snakes. Any ideas what she has in her hands?

street art by Jay Howell in Honolulu, female figure with long dark brown hair with at least three snakes in it. An orange snake, a blue snake and a green one.

Photos taken July 2025

animals under the 401

Posted on June 15, 2026 by Mary C

There are two large murals by Nick Sweetman that cover the two sides of Bathurst street as it passes under the 401 highway (in Toronto). Both of them are a collection of animals – birds, frogs, cows, cats, foxes, bats, tigers, and more. This is a selection of images from those two walls.

Photos taken May 2026

Sanko trading company

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Mary C

below: People walking on Queen Street West in Toronto. Do you think that they realize that a large yellow eye is watching them from behind? This is the eye of a very large painting of a cat, probably a Japanese cat.

The mural, the JapanTown mural on the side of the Sanko Trading Company, has been re-painted. The previous mural dates from 2013/4. A blog post with photos of what that looked like in 2015 is at: Sanko Wall. This blog post should give you an idea what it looks like now.

The group of artists (‘The Summit’) who painted the mural also made a video for youtube: The JapanTown Project No. 5

Photos taken May 2026

Caleb Neelon in Lynn

Posted on March 19, 2026 by Mary C

One of the large murals brought to Lynn Massachusetts by Beyond Walls is one on Munroe Street by Caleb Neelon (with help from Lena McCarthy). It is on the side wall of a building adjacent to a parking lot so it is easy to see but difficult to get a good picture of the whole mural without a wide angle lens. It was painted in 2017.

edge of mural by Caleb Neelon in Lynn Massachusetts, beside wrought iton fence, with another mural in the background

The mural is full of details! Polka dots, stars, and other little shapes. Also miniature drawings of animals, people, buildings, and much more.

part of mural by Caleb Neelon in Lynn Massachusetts, like patchwork quilt made of many shapes and colours, stitched together with black lines, with polka dots, squiggles, stars, stripes,

It is a patchwork of shapes in many colours, all stitched carefully together with black thread. It is an artful arrangement of shape, colour, and texture. A series of circles around little fuzzy blue creatures (called Sonik) forms the central core of the mural.

part of mural by Caleb Neelon in Lynn Massachusetts, center part is circular

part of mural by Caleb Neelon with blue fuzzy sonik looking out with white eyes

More information on Beyond Walls

Photos taken July 2024

Ragusa Murals

Posted on February 17, 2026 by Mary C

The previous post, Il Tempo Paso was about 2 murals in Comiso by artists Case Maclaim and Marak Morik. These two have also painted murals in nearby Ragusa.

below: “Familia” by Case Maclaim, 2024

mural by Case Maclaim of two young girls close to their mother who is dressed in turquoise, on the wall of a building beside a playground with a couple of plastic toys

below: Marak Morik, “On the way to Pescheria” (the fish market), 2017

mural by Marak Morik of a man on bicycles, a red umbrella, and a pile of fish.

…..and in the same area of the city is another mural, from FestiWall 2018, an abstract scene (is there a bird in there?) by Alexey Luka,

abstract mural on the side of a building by Alexey Luka

There are many other murals in Ragusa, spread out around the city and most are the product of the annual FestiWalls event. Because of limited time, I only had a chance to check out one more neighbourhood where I found three murals.

below: First, there was a very faded old mural by Fintan Magee; I think that it is a man with a prickly pear cactus.

below: A screen shot from Fintan Magee’s Facebook page – this is what “The Gardener” looked like back when it was painted in 2016 (ten years ago)

fintan magee mural, the gardener, a man with a tomato plant and a prickly pear cactus

below: Agostino Iacurci, “Immobile” – pottery jugs, urns, and other vessels.

close up of part of a large mural by Agostino Iacurci of 4 different pottery jugs on their side, in a stack, along with three little birds, in Ragusa Italy

below: Evoka 1 (aka Elio Mercado), “Resistenza di Incertezza”, 2016, a young girl with an apple on her head as well as six or so more in her hands.

below: A bunny rabbit!

Photos taken February 2026

Mission Makeover

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Mary C

In 2012 the father and daughter team Tirso Araiza and Lucia González Ippolito (aka Cia Lu Art) painted this mural in Balmy Alley. It was restored and updated in 2022. The theme of the mural is the (ongoing) gentrification of the Mission District neighbourhood with the consequent displacement of those poorer and less fortunate.

Balmy Alley mural, social commentary, social justice, theme of gentrification effects on Mission District, painted originally in 2012 by Tirso Araiza and Lucia González Ippolito, updated in 2022, shows police removing people from the area, wealthier people moving in

part of Balmy Alley mural, painted originally in 2012 by Tirso Araiza and Lucia González Ippolito, updated in 2022, mission district makeover

part of Mission makeover mural, white dog, man sleeping in the street, red convertible

The word written across the top is “Rejoice”

Photos taken February 2025

Brunswick

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Mary C

Brunswick is one of the suburbs of Melbourne; it is north of the Central Business District.

below: One of the murals painted on the side of an older building on Sydney Road. This is the Retreat Hotel and the mural was painted by Buff Diss.

cyclist cycling past a street art mural on the side of an old two storey building on Sydney Road in Brunswick

below: Treaty” and “Teach Black history” JESWRI (aka Jesse Wright) on the side of another older building on Sydney Road. There is a Korean BBQ restaurant on the lower level although most of the building looks a bit decrepit.

street art mural on the side of an old two storey building on Sydney Road in Brunswick

below: A series of paintings in shades of gray with a large pointy mountain in the back.

below: “Tram Kangaroo” by Mike Maka. One very large kangaroo hops along beside an old abandoned Melbourne tram (route 19, which runs along Sydney Road) in this dystopian future scene.

below: A closer look …

below: Not such an old building this time.. on the side of the Savers store is a mural by Danielle Weber. A pair of hands is trying to pull back the gray wall to reveal a tropical scene hiding behind it.

below: Zatira (aka Katherine Gailer). has used a palette of vivid colours in this mural dedicated to Teresa Bruno, a well known local chef and owner of Zia Teresa Restaurant (Italian).

throw up type street art in Brunswock, abstract shapes and colours,

below: Protest type poster where the mayor is shielded from the people by layers of armed police. People are too mesmerized by what is on their screens to care.

below: Uprooted police cars.

below: “The colony will fail”.