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  • Today's mural is a watercolor plein-air painting of the Boston skyline. Artist Barbara Marder sketches on site and completes her work in her home studio.
  • Today's mural A Beauteous Heap by Resa Blatman is inspired by a rich history of paintings from the Netherlandish style, Baroque period, Hudson River School movement, and Abstract Expressionism. These elements combined focus on the shifting climate that is unpredictable, yet captivating and beautiful.
  • Today's mural Trapped by Manuela Jani explores the paradox of human attachment. While there is natural desire to grasp tightly onto sources of light, love, and happiness, the act can inadvertently extinguish them. Just as a flame requires air to sustain itself, love demands freedom and space to flourish.
  • Today's mural is a painting by Santiago Hernandez, depicting a section of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Acrylic on 60x60 in. canvas, this 2023 painting is part of Hernandez's Archiometries Series, which fuses aspects of architecture, design, and abstract painting. This painting was specifically inspired by Sir Norman Foster's Art of Americas Wing addition to MFABoston.
  • Today's mural Pollination by Colomba Klenner is a visual exploration of the interconnectedness in life, highlighting both the ecological significance of bees and the essential nature of human empathy. Crafted from mulberry paper and gouache on wood, this piece symbolizes the delicate fragility of our ecosystem. The intricate layering of materials mirrors the complex relationships within nature, inviting viewers to reflect on the vital role that bees play in sustaining life.
  • Today's mural Overpass by Gabrielle Maye incorporates imagery inspired by the objects, concepts, and uncertainties of reality. Diverse landscapes of Maye's memories, including the industrial environments of Boston and Montreal, shape the contours of her inner world.
  • Today's mural The Bleeding Sea by Adriana G. Prat reflects on the brutality of human-made environmental disruption. Prat interweaves elements from maps, ocean and land geographies, and topographies as reminders of what needs to be saved under the pressures of exploitation and climate change.
  • Today's Mural Floating Man by Alex Cook is comprised of an intricate pattern of colors and repeated shapes that exist apart from the image presented. The figure is perceived through color changes in the concentric diamonds.
  • Today’s mural is a drawing of Boston’s Chinatown by Delanie Pon. Over the course of two months, she went to the Chinatown Gate and drew in real time.
  • Today's Mural Love Song by Judith Ellen Sanders combines the synergies of the botanical world with vibrant colors and flowing forms to to explore nuanced feelings of expansiveness and possibility.