The Casa Picnic has a big, prominent wall featuring frequently changing murals. I've posted about some of them occasionally (here, here and here), though as I mentioned it almost every single time, they tend to be quite commercial, up to the point of being flat-out advertisements. So I don't like to use them, only exceptionally for my Mexican Murals series, which I normally also submit for the CCC Street Art Contest. That contest, by the way, has gotten huge! Check it out, this is the 99th week it has been going for.
Right behind the Casa Picnic is another wall, with less frequently changing paintings. I think the first time it was painted was when I wrote this skater mural post and it stayed up until recently, when it was replaced by an equally interesting image.
Peace for Ukraine
The message is clear, and the colors obvious. For those who may still not know, the blue and yellow are the Ukranian national colors, so this mural is an obvious statement against the war that country has been suffering from over the last months. The word PEACE further clarifies where this piece of art stands on the issue.
Looking and the details of the image, things become somewhat less clear. The face of the girl sure has Eastern European features, but all around her we can see ... pyramids or mountain tops? vines or eyeballs? flowers, crystals, leaves, and ears of corn? Does it even make any sense at all?
More Than the First Impression
The wall is pretty long, and the mural keeps going on, so I was unable to get everything in one frame. As you can see, the style varies greatly, so much so that I think it's safe to say it was painted by more than one artist. Left of this girl there is a mandala-like flower, followed by a very strange looking robot animal curled around a flower vase. It resembles a cat, with an antenna on its head, and a mechanical head on its tail tip. The lettering below mean "Peace and brotherhood with Ukraine".
Identifying the Artists
This brings me to the whodunit question. And yes, there are a couple of candidates for potential identifiers of artists. The lettering on the rear foot of the robo cat says Tellaeche. In the top right corner of the wall with the Peace lettering we can see a tag for UNEG, and above the mandala flower we can see the name of Said Dokins. And all of them an online presence that was quite easy to find.
