Made You Inspired (9 Photos)

June 21, 2026

By Vidar

Sometimes a crack, a weed, a worn object, or a damaged corner is enough.

These nine works use what was already there: grass, cracked plaster, old concrete, dead wood, discarded objects, and a weathered boat. The artists noticed the shape, texture, and damage already in front of them.

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🌿 Leonard’s Motto: “Cultivate Abundance Where You Find It” — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

David Zinn gave Leonard a brown suit, a monocle, and a huge mustache made from two tufts of sidewalk grass. In his September 2020 post, Zinn captioned the scene: “Leonard’s motto: cultivate abundance where you find it.”

💡 Nerd Fact: Zinn does not arrive with a finished drawing to copy. His official biography says every temporary street piece is improvised on location using only chalk, charcoal, and found objects.

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📚 “Intensification of Contrast” — By Andrey Syaylev at Samara Public Library in Samara, Russia 🇷🇺

Syaylev’s official archive identifies Intensification of Contrast as a 2013 site-specific installation made with books and cement. At the Public Library at 95 Kuybysheva Street, he treated the ruined corner like masonry. A local interview with the artist records that the intervention lasted only a few days, and Syaylev’s archive notes that the facade was later restored.

💡 Nerd Fact: Books and brickwork are recurring ideas in Syaylev’s practice, not a one-off visual pun. His artist statement describes books, bricks, and tile patterns as structures that “compress” time and help organize human perception.

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🐘 “Elephant Friend” — By Golsa Golchini in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

The broken plaster forms the elephant’s body. Golsa Golchini outlined the shape and added a small girl reaching up to touch its trunk.

💡 Nerd Fact: Golchini’s training was unusually cross-disciplinary. A biographical profile records that she studied photography, decoration, impasto, sculpture, fresco, and painting at Milan’s Brera Academy between 2004 and 2010.

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🦷 “Toothyman” (“Dentist”) — By Nikita Nomerz in Yekaterinburg, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for the 2011 Stenograffia festival at 4B Voevodina Street, the work uses broken brickwork as missing teeth and a projecting metal pipe as the smoker’s cigarette. Local documentation records Toothyman as Nomerz’s name for the piece; Dentist became its popular nickname.

💡 Nerd Fact: Nomerz later became an archivist of the street-art culture around him. His gallery biography says he founded Nizhny Novgorod’s MESTO international street-art festival in 2017 and in 2022 published an encyclopedia covering the city’s urban art from 1980 to 2020.

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♻️ “Tom Murphy” — By Bernard Pras at Spanish Arch in Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪

Pras’s official inventory records Tom Murphy as work no. 47 from 2003. Created for the 2003 Galway Arts Festival at the Spanish Arch, the temporary anamorphic portrait resolves from one viewpoint; up close it is wicker chairs, a monitor, wood, metal, and other found objects. A contemporary festival review identified the sitter as Irish playwright Tom Murphy.

💡 Nerd Fact: The temporary Galway construction also became a collectible photographic work. A gallery catalogue lists Tom Murphy as a 154.9 × 119.4 cm C-print mounted on aluminum, issued in an edition of eight plus four artist’s proofs.

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🦊 “Tree Fox” — By Syd of The Stencil Shed near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK 🇬🇧

Tree Fox belongs to Syd’s Green Graffiti project, begun in 2021 to introduce paint and sculpture sympathetically to dead wood and other found natural forms. Here the branch’s grain and broken edge already suggest a fox’s head; the stencil work brings it forward without hiding the weathered wood.

💡 Nerd Fact: “Green Graffiti” began because Syd felt out of place painting large city murals and wanted to bring outdoor art into the countryside. On the project page, he describes adding paint or sculpture specifically to dead objects.

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🧱 The Lego-Brücke — By MEGX (Martin Heuwold) in Wuppertal, Germany 🇩🇪

Completed in 2011, the first Lego-Brücke crosses Schwesterstraße on the Nordbahntrasse. A regional tourism page credits MEGX and notes that the success of this bridge led to a second version in 2020. The original design turns roughly 250 square metres of concrete into oversized toy bricks.

💡 Nerd Fact: The idea came from Heuwold’s two daughters, and he obtained approval from the LEGO Group before painting, according to a project history. The bridge then won the 2012 Deutscher Fassadenpreis Advancement Prize.

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👁️ “Look at Porto” — By Vhils in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹

Created in 2016 at Rua da Atafona 6, Look at Porto combines a carved human eye with plant forms and the building’s windows. Vhils’s studio describes this signature method as removing surface layers to expose what is already inside the wall, rather than adding another painted layer.

💡 Nerd Fact: Vhils developed this approach from layered advertising posters before he began carving walls. In a 2017 interview, he said cutting through old poster stacks exposed buried fragments that felt like fossils of contemporary culture and inspired his idea of “urban archaeology.”

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🦈 Blue Shark Boat — By Xanoy

The weathered hull already had the shark’s long body and pointed snout. Xanoy added blue-grey skin, an eye, gills, and teeth, turning the boat into a beached shark.

🦈 Shark Fact: Real blue sharks make daily vertical journeys through the ocean. Smithsonian Ocean notes that they often stay within the upper 100 metres at night, then dive to about 400 metres—and occasionally 600 metres—during the day.

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