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A rooster fills a corner. A face rests in wood.

Painted illusions meet driftwood sculpture and beach art in these eight photos. A giant rooster fills a concrete corner, a kitten peers through a wall, and pebbles become a seahorse.

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🐓 Big Rooster — By Odeith in Sintra, Portugal 🇵🇹

A rooster fills a concrete corner, its blue-black tail stretching across one wall and its feet reaching onto the ground. Odeith’s May 2019 process video condenses six hours of painting into one minute. The original photograph by 1904manuel records this location in Sintra on May 1, 2019 (cropped; CC BY-SA 4.0).

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🌳 Fearless — By Debra Bernier of Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦

A closed-eyed face rests inside a teardrop-shaped opening in weathered wood. Gold and violet tones follow the curves around the cheeks and forehead, while rough bark frames the smooth face. Debra Bernier calls the work Fearless.

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🐚 Stone Seahorse — By Beach4Art in North Devon, UK 🇬🇧

Beach4Art, a family of four, made this pebble seahorse at Sandymere Beach in North Devon. Their own print listing records the original beach arrangement at 2.5 by 1.4 meters. Changes in pebble size and color shape its curved back, narrow snout and curled tail. The map marks where it was made, not a permanent installation.

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🐱 Gatet Gegant (The Giant Kitten) — By Oriol Arumí in Torrefarrera, Spain 🇪🇸

Oriol Arumí created Gatet Gegant for Torrefarrera Street Art Festival in 2020. In the festival’s account, he explains that he used the shape of his assigned wall to create the illusion of a giant kitten emerging from a warehouse. Painted broken brickwork frames the animal’s head.

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📚 Escadateca at Colégio Ser — By Eduardo Kobra in Sorocaba, Brazil 🇧🇷

Eduardo Kobra painted Escadateca in early 2021 on Colégio Ser’s Boa Vista campus, at Rua Doutor José Aleixo Irmão 301, Sorocaba. The 22-by-11-meter mural turns the school’s facade into bookshelves, with a boy climbing a ladder toward the books.

💡 Nerd Fact: Before painting, Kobra asked people to suggest Brazilian books. He received about 4,000 recommendations, helping shape the selection of titles in the mural, as he explains on his project page.

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🌀 Revolve — By Jon Foreman in Druidston, Wales, UK 🇬🇧

Curving rows of beach stones sweep out from a shared center on the wet sand. In Jon Foreman’s Revolve, large dark stones mark the outer ends while smaller pebbles trace the curves toward the middle. Pale stones edge several of the rows, and the sunset reflects across the beach behind them.

💡 Nerd Fact: Foreman began making land art while at college, drawing on the Pembrokeshire coast where he grew up. In his account of the practice, he describes the eventual loss of his arrangements to tides, wind or human interference as part of the creative process.

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🐆 Leopard — By Blesea in Cherbourg, France 🇫🇷

A leopard’s face wraps around a concrete corner among the trees. Blesea uses the change in wall direction to shape its muzzle, with one eye watching from the side. Cotentin’s tourism office featured Blesea and a photograph of his leopard in December 2024, alongside an interview about his temporary works and his connection to the region.

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☁️ In the Sky — By Seth in Le Port, Réunion, France 🇫🇷

In In the Sky (2015), a child pulls the blue facade aside like a curtain beside a real tree. The mural was made for Le Port’s Ville Musée project, at the Rose des Vents housing complex on Rue Cimendef.

💡 Nerd Fact: Le Port’s first Ville Musée edition in December 2015 brought seven artists to seven building facades. Seth’s mural later reached a wider audience when Lionel Richie shared a photograph of it in December 2016.

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