Made You Feel (15 Photos)

June 25, 2026

By Vidar

Some public art does not shout. It quietly makes something human visible.

It can almost disappear into a staircase, become a wave of stones on a beach, or turn a broken wall into a place for memory.

Here are 15 street artworks, murals, sculptures, stencils, body-painting interventions, and land art pieces that stayed with us.

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🫥 The Invisibility of Poverty / Don’t Ignore Me — By Kevin Lee, Haohui Zhou and Bin Liu in Beijing, China 🇨🇳

Body paint turns the child into part of the staircase. The sign beside the original 2008 UNICEF China campaign read 不要忽略我 — “Don’t ignore me,” and a 2008 campaign listing credits Ogilvy & Mather Shanghai, Kevin Lee, and artists Haohui Zhou and Bin Liu. Later coverage by My Modern Met documented it as a poverty-awareness campaign in Beijing. The hardest part is not the illusion. It is the feeling that the illusion might be true.

💡 Nerd Fact: The famous staircase image was only one part of the campaign: The One Show archive lists Invisible Child as using three camouflaged children in three different locations. The point was not to make one child disappear, but to show how easily a whole social problem can vanish in public.

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🌊 Fluidus — By Jon Foreman / Sculpt The World in Wales 🇬🇧

Stone by stone, the beach becomes a wave. Foreman documented Fluidus, 2022 as created at Freshwater West, which fits the work: calm, patient, temporary, and always available to the tide.

💡 Nerd Fact: Freshwater West is not a gentle studio floor. Pembrokeshire Coast documentation notes a tidal range of about 6.5 metres and strong waves and currents there, so the beach is not just the canvas — it is also the built-in eraser.

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🌤️ Free — By Sasha Korban in Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Street Art Cities lists this mural as Free, added by the artist at Almatynska Street 109В. Korban frames it as feminine strength and quiet persistence; the figure’s small bouquet still pulls the whole wall upward.

💡 Nerd Fact: Before he became a major Ukrainian muralist, Korban worked underground: his biography says he was a miner at the Komsomolets Donbasu mine from 2006 to 2011. That makes his repeated themes of endurance feel less like a slogan and more like a life story painted upward.

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🤲 Take My Hand — By Michael Rosato in Cambridge, Maryland, USA 🇺🇸

Michael Rosato’s painted hand feels close enough to take. The official Harriet Tubman Mural site confirms Take My Hand is on the exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center at 424 Race Street. Harriet Tubman reaches through the broken wall with quiet force. History becomes a gesture.

💡 Nerd Fact: The mural’s location matters because Tubman’s story is deeply local. The National Park Service notes that she escaped from Dorchester County in 1849 and returned to the area 13 times over the next decade to guide family members and others to freedom.

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🧸 Love Plzeň — By Chemis in Plzeň, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

The peeling wall works like a blanket, but the mural’s tenderness has a harder root: Chemis has explained that it was inspired by the history of a house on Jateční Street, a low-income residence stigmatized as a Romani ghetto. It was painted for WALLZ 2022 / DEPO2015. The red alarm clock waits above, ready to end the dream.

💡 Nerd Fact: Chemis is not only a decorative wall painter. On his official site, he describes working with Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and UNHCR, which helps explain why this mural treats housing and social stigma as part of the artwork, not just as background.

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⏱️ Radium — By SHOK-1 in Le Locle, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Exomusée’s page for Radium explains the hand as a Radium Girl painting a luminous clock face; the mural is at Rue des Envers 63 in Le Locle, a city tied to Swiss watchmaking. SHOK-1’s glowing X-ray style makes time feel fragile and clinical.

💡 Nerd Fact: The real Radium Girls were harmed by a tiny workplace instruction: Britannica notes that dial painters were told to use their lips to bring small brushes to a fine point. A clock face became dangerous because precision was valued more than the workers making it glow.

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🪢 Las manos de muchas — By Muraleslian in Ondarroa, Spain 🇪🇸

Local coverage identifies the mural as Las manos de muchas, while BILBON places it at Antiguako Ama 11. In an interview with Cadena SER, Lian Monserrate spoke about the rederas of Ondarroa and the strength created when many threads come together. The colored threads carry that memory across a grayscale wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: This mural got a rare kind of fact-check: Lian Monserrate told Cadena SER she was proud when real rederas said the knots were correctly made. For a mural about invisible labor, accuracy from the workers themselves is the best review.

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🎸 Music of Love — By SUNRA in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷

SUNRA makes music visible, and the passerby makes it feel real. Street Art Cities records the Montpellier piece as Chuck Berry by Sunra at 10 Rue du Petit Saint-Jean and now marks it as removed, which makes the photo feel even more like a small saved moment: hearts flying from the guitar like sound heading straight for someone.

💡 Nerd Fact: The music link is not random. Artist profiles describe SUNRA’s work as fed by jazz, soul, hip hop, oriental influences, contemporary painting, and street art. So the guitar is not just a cute prop — it belongs to the artist’s whole visual vocabulary.

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❤️ Love Bats — By Nick Walker in Portals Nous, Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸

The mural keeps the image simple, almost film-like: a rower facing a red heart breaking into bats. Love travels toward him, but it is already changing shape.

💡 Nerd Fact: Nick Walker comes from Bristol’s early graffiti scene, the same city ecosystem that later became globally associated with stencil street art. URBAN NATION describes him as emerging from Bristol’s graffiti scene in the early 1980s, which means this quiet Mallorca love scene carries decades of British street-art history behind it.

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🕊️ When Love Outgrows Power — Unknown Artist

Some walls do not need figures. This rough message works because the concrete looks as worn as the world it is talking to, and the words still insist on peace.

💡 Nerd Fact: This line is often shared online as a Jimi Hendrix quote, but the attribution is complicated. Wikiquote traces a similar “Power of Love” / “Love of Power” wording to a 1948 attribution to William Ewart Gladstone, and notes that a similar version later became attached to Hendrix.

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🪁 Kite — By Pejac in Al-Hussein, Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴

For his 2016 Al-Hussein refugee-camp series, Pejac used the wall’s own chipped surface rather than covering it; Hyperallergic documented Kite as one of those subtle scraped-paint interventions. The damaged wall gets a horizon. The child standing beside it makes the small piece feel like a wish someone left in public.

💡 Nerd Fact: Al-Hussein is not just a location in the caption. UNRWA describes Jabal el-Hussein as one of four camps established in Jordan after 1948 for Palestinians displaced by the war. Pejac’s tiny scraped figures sit on top of a much older displacement story.

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💋 Amor Eterno — By Duek & Fresa Bogotá in Tláhuac, Mexico 🇲🇽

Duek shared the work as Amor Eterno, a collaboration with Fresa Bogotá painted for a care home on Avenida Tláhuac. Every wrinkle matters, but the kiss is the point: one small human gesture big enough to fill a wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: In this context, asilo does not mean political asylum. Spanish-English dictionaries also use asilo for a nursing home or elderly care home. That makes the mural’s tenderness even more direct: it was painted for a place where long love stories grow old.

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🌿 Breathing Green — By Dr. Love / Bacha Khoperia in Bristol, England 🇬🇧

Durham University’s Life of Breath exhibition identifies the artist as Bacha Khoperia, a.k.a. Dr. Love, and places the work at Bristol Upfest 2015, originally in Bedminster. The stencil is direct and tender: the patient breathes from a tree, not a machine. The real moss makes the idea physical.

💡 Nerd Fact: This street piece later became part of an academic story about breath. Durham University included it in the Life of Breath exhibition, a project exploring the relationship between humans, illness, environment, and breathing itself.

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🛋️ Home Is Where You Make It — By Skid Robot in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸

Skid Robot draws a home where there is no home. The Guardian and VICE have both profiled the anonymous Los Angeles artist’s project of framing people living on the street with drawn rooms, dreams, and missing comforts. The TV, window, and birdcage are only lines on concrete, which makes the gap harder to look away from.

💡 Nerd Fact: The project was never just about taking photos. In a VICE interview, Skid Robot said he began bringing snacks, toiletries, money, and care packages to people he painted near. The work sits in a complicated space between graffiti, documentation, and direct street-level care.

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🌸 Dreams in Bloom — By TUZQ in Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Street Art Cities lists Dreams in bloom as a Walls of BoHo 2025 mural at Dodoensstraat 24 in Antwerp. The figure closes her eyes among pink petals, and the tall wall makes room for a little rest.

💡 Nerd Fact: “BoHo” here is Borgerhout, not just a bohemian vibe. Street Art Cities explains that Walls of BoHo began in 2019 in Antwerp’s Borgerhout district and returned in 2025 for its third edition, turning the neighborhood into a growing open-air mural route.

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