Smile! | Eyes on the Streets

… is a street in Bonn that ends in a dead end (for traffic). There are buildings only on one side of the street because the other side is a concrete wall that helps support Guido-Westerwelle-Brucke as it rises to form a bridge over the railway tracks.

below: Little long-nosed knee pads for someone with big feet.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany - lower part of a mural, big feet with white socks and laced shoes, yellow knee pads that look like faces with long noses. Urban art by Falko.

below: Cheap Art (& Factorie 45) are located here. Also, there is body (of sorts) above those big feet. “Legs Alien” was painted by Falko.

below: Books coming together to form a bridge – this is “World Construction” by Anthony Dipaola and Adolfo Torrico. There are 17 books in the stack and each one represents a Sustainability Goal such as No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Gender Equality, and Affordable Energy, etc. It is painted on the side of Kult 41 cultural center (and beside Bonn’s Central Mosque).

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, mural by Marie Hesse, blue tropical birds surrounded by lots of greenery and trees

below: This mural by Marie Hesse is a recent addition to the neighbourhood. It is a tribute to Expressionist painter August Macke (1887-1914) and is her interpretation of a Macke painting “Mädchen mit Blauen Vogeln (Girl with Blue Bird) (the museum, August Macke Haus is nearby).

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, mural by Marie Hesse, blue tropical birds surrounded by lots of greenery and trees, on a street with lots of red and white construction barricades

below: Big brown eyes, with a tack in the bottom corner of one.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, large pink face of a brown eyed man, lower part s covered with orange and yellow paint

below: Smile!

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, with the word smile beside it

below: Another Smile! This one looks like weather – there’s lightning, and raindrops, and clouds.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, another smile face

below: I almost missed it – This Petit Astronaute by Seileise (aka Tim Ossege) was hiding behind some very heavy pieces of metal.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, black and white stencil of an astronaut and three chickadees by Sieleise

below: Because I was trying to balance the metal pieces while holding my camera, the photo is not at the best angle.

below: Purple lines, like purple crayon drawings.

below: Mahala

below: A big toothy grin, popsicle by NanE

below: The south end of Hochstadenring – vacant lot on one side, concrete wall on the other.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: Turn around, and look back where you came from.

below: An alien life form and lots of scribbles.

below: From the end of Hochstadenring you can see the next street over, Heerstrasse, and two faded older mural dating from 2015.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, two large murals painted in 2015

below: A closer look at the one on the left shows this scene

below: There was a flowing grid of different colours on the mural on the right but most of it has been covered with tags.

below: Street art of a slightly different sort – the next two photos are large whimsical sculptures that were probably made from found objects. They add some fun to the courtyard of Kult 41.