Made You Dream (16 Photos)

These 16 artworks make public space feel less fixed: children reach for moons, walls turn into water, harbors float, and buildings open into impossible views. Some are huge, some are quiet, and all of them shift the street into dream mode.

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🌙 “Abisso” — By LIGAMA in Ravanusa, Italy 🇮🇹

LIGAMA lists this 2020 Ravanusa mural as “Abisso”. A giant boy leans toward the water-like 3D depth below, while the word “SOGNO” on his shirt pulls the image back toward dreaming. The building feels quiet and impossible at the same time.

💡 Nerd Fact: Local reporting connects the water in “Abisso” to a Ravanusa legend: water represents a community recovering energy and changing its own history. That makes the mural less about a pretty reflection and more about civic rebirth. AgrigentoOggi

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🕊️ “Positive Light” — By Alaniz in Stornara, Italy 🇮🇹

Alaniz keeps it simple: a dark room, a bright opening, white doves, and bats left behind in the shadows. In a My Modern Met feature, the bats are tied to fear and intrusive thoughts, while the bright window opens a different way of looking. The woman reaches toward the light, and the wall becomes a small scene about choosing where to look.

💡 Nerd Fact: Stornara is not just a village with one great wall: Puglia’s regional site describes Stramurales as a route of 100+ murals that has turned this agricultural town into an open-air museum. Regione Puglia

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🌊 “Underwater” — By Jean Rooble in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Jean Rooble paints the street as if it has filled with water. The swimmer crosses the dark wall in blue light, with bubbles around the body. It is quiet, strange, and hard not to stare at.

💡 Nerd Fact: Jean Rooble is the working name of Romain Thiriau, a self-taught artist based in Bordeaux who came to painting through late-1990s graffiti before moving into photorealistic portraits and spray-paint chiaroscuro. Jean Rooble bio

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⭐ “Collecting Dreams” — By Adry del Rocío in Doha, Qatar 🇶🇦

For World Wide Walls: Doha 2023 at Old Doha Port’s Mina District, Adry del Rocío framed childhood as the time when dreams begin to take shape. Fish, birds, stars, and sea creatures all move around one child, making the mural feel bright, busy, and weightless.

💡 Nerd Fact: World Wide Walls is the mural festival network formerly known as POW! WOW!; Qatar’s news agency notes the name changed after 10 years to emphasize cities, people, and artistic talent. Qatar News Agency

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🦖 “Childhood Dream” — By NEXER in Limeil-Brévannes, France 🇫🇷

Documented as “Childhood Dream” at 16 Rue d’Aquitaine, this mural shows a child making a dinosaur appear on a huge orange wall. NEXER keeps the idea close to childhood itself: the age when a drawing can still be as real as anything else in front of you.

💡 Nerd Fact: NEXER has described the site itself as part of the idea: the huge wall rises above a primary school, so the dinosaur is tied to the everyday imagination of the children passing below it. archived caption

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⛵ “Midday” — By APHENOAH in Norderstedt, Germany 🇩🇪

APHENOAH’s own CV lists the Norderstedt work as “Midday”, a Walls of Vision mural on Schmuggelstieg that reworks Paul Kayser’s “The Midday Hour.” Two men stand at a painted balustrade, looking toward water and a contemporary city view; the facade becomes a quiet place to stop for a minute.

💡 Nerd Fact: Walls of Vision explains that APHENOAH had to translate Kayser’s horizontal harbor painting into a vertical façade composition, then subtly updated the scene by shifting the workers closer together and making the view more contemporary. Walls of Vision

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☁️ “In the Clouds Where Boats of All Ages and Cultures Meet” — By Tom Wild Sketch and TETAL in La Seyne-sur-Mer, France 🇫🇷

Tom Wild Sketch and TETAL stack boats, towers, clouds, and machinery into one impossible harbor, mixing marine and aviation imagery for La Seyne-sur-Mer’s Mini Fest 2022. The wall feels packed, but not messy — more like a seaport that slipped loose from the ground.

💡 Nerd Fact: La Seyne-sur-Mer’s floating harbor fantasy lands in a city shaped by shipbuilding: the old naval yards brought the town wealth for nearly a century, and the city still points visitors to the Pont Levant and shipyard gate as surviving witnesses. Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer

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🍃 “Guayacán” — By Millo in Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴

In Millo’s own post, “Guayacán” was completed in Medellín for the Medellín Street Art Festival. The mural draws on the local presence of the guayacán tree, so the yellow leaves carry most of the visual energy. Above the rooftops, the child floats as if the whole city has gone light for a moment.

💡 Nerd Fact: In Medellín, the guayacán bloom carries local memory: GraffitiStreet reports that its annual flowering is celebrated as hope and renewal, and Millo gathered residents’ stories about the tree while developing the mural. GraffitiStreet

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🛸 “Microcosmic” — By Chris Butcher / Rocket01 in Southampton, UK 🇬🇧

Chris Butcher, working as Rocket01, lists this Southampton mural as “Microcosmic” in his portfolio. It was painted for Multi-Stories at Westquay’s multi-storey car park, where a functional car park has become a permanent street art gallery. The green suit, terrarium, small UFO, and soft light make the science fiction feel careful rather than loud.

💡 Nerd Fact: Multi-Stories is bigger than one sci-fi wall: Southampton Forward describes it as the South Coast’s largest permanent street art gallery, with 90+ murals spread through nine levels of Westquay’s car park. Southampton Forward

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🌕 “Reaching for the Moon” — By Cosimo CHEONE Caiffa in Meda, Italy 🇮🇹

CHEONE keeps the idea simple: a child, a wall, and a moon just out of reach. The 3D effect makes the hand feel close to the moon’s surface, so distance briefly starts to look possible.

💡 Nerd Fact: CHEONE is the street name of Cosimo Caiffa, born in Gallipoli in 1979 and active around Milan. A gallery bio notes that his route was self-taught from 1995, including years spent studying light and shadow. Tabor Art

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🪽 “Flight” — By Tatyana Fazlalizadeh in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 🇺🇸

Mural Arts Philadelphia lists “Flight” at 1228 Spruce Street as part of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s series imagining flight as liberation, escape, and transformation. The strong shadow makes the leap feel physical, even though the figure is fixed to brick. For a second, gravity loses the argument.

💡 Nerd Fact: Fazlalizadeh’s own project page describes “Flight” as an ongoing series inspired by Black folklore and mythology, drawing from writers such as Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Virginia Hamilton. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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🎣 “Le pêcheur” — By Jean-Louis Dupart in Boissy-Saint-Léger, France 🇫🇷

The mural is documented as “Le pêcheur”, a 2002 work by Jean-Louis Dupart at Résidence du Lac, La Haie Griselle. A man and his dog fish into empty air, while the long painted shadow makes the whole thing feel oddly believable.

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🏙️ “Flatiron Mural” — By Derek Michael Besant in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

On the west side of the Gooderham Building, this 1980 trompe-l’œil mural by Derek Besant turns the flat wall facing Berczy Park into something that looks like a peeling sheet of architecture. It is painted flat, but your brain keeps reading it as depth.

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😴 “Dread Dream” — By WD (Wild Drawing) in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩

“Dread Dream” brings WD back to Bali, where he is from. He uses the rough building instead of hiding it: the sleeping boy curls along the wall, bright color against stained concrete and rubble, while the faint word “DREAM” nearby sits open-ended rather than explanatory.

💡 Nerd Fact: WD says his love of art grew in Bali because art is part of everyday life there; he later studied Fine Arts and Applied Arts and began painting in the streets in the 2000s. Dreadpen interview

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🕰️ “Hermann Künig” — By Diego AS in Becerreá, Spain 🇪🇸

Diego AS identifies this work with Hermann Künig and the Vía Künig. The figure is the German monk who described an alternative route to Santiago, and the background shows the Monastery of Santa María de Penamaior. The wall reads like a break in time: history stepping through a green Galician landscape and into the street.

💡 Nerd Fact: Künig’s 1495 guide was practical as well as historical: it listed places, distances, tips, and useful information for German pilgrims, and was printed five times. As Miguiñas do Cebreiro

More: Diego AS’ Vía Künig mural in Becerreá

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🌕 “Equilibrio Frágil” — By KATO in Estepona, Spain 🇪🇸

KATO’s “Equilibrio Frágil”, at Calle Terraza 62, is about bullying and the weight a young person can carry. The girl climbs toward the moon, but the heavy backpack gives the hopeful image its tension.

💡 Nerd Fact: KATO’s anti-bullying theme is not a one-off caption: his own bio lists educational and social workshops on bullying prevention, inclusion, equality, diversity, environment, and youth participation. KATO Art bio

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