Clever! (12 Photos)
By Vidar
A giant snake and a tiny chalk-art pep talk
These 12 photos range from a tiny, flower-haired chalk character to a giant snake and a glowing globe on the water. There are scrap-metal animals and a bronze couple, too.
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🐍 Serpent — By Braga Last1 in Puteaux, France 🇫🇷
Braga Last1 painted Serpent for Puteaux’s 2021 Graffic Art Festival. The eleventh edition focused on the animal world and used urban art to raise awareness of animal protection.
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🌱 Sibling Pep Talk — By David Zinn
David Zinn shared this chalk drawing as Sibling Pep Talk.
💡 Nerd Fact: Zinn worked as a commercial illustrator before turning to pavement drawings. In his essay Why Chalk?, he says he started drawing outside to get away from his computer on sunny days and still work. Using chalk also eased the pressure he felt when making permanent art.
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🐶 Molly and a Cat Sculpture — By Brian Mock
Oregon-based sculptor Brian Mock makes animal sculptures from reclaimed metal. His dog gallery lists Molly as 30 inches high, approximately 76 centimetres.
💡 Nerd Fact: Mock taught himself to weld after working in drawing, painting and wood carving. His biography dates his move into recycled-metal sculpture to the late 1990s.
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🐿️ Une petite noisette ? — By Blesea in Cherbourg, France 🇫🇷
Blesea shared this Cherbourg mural in 2025 as Une petite noisette ?, French for “A little hazelnut?”
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💐 Thirst for Nature — By Artez in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸
Artez’s Thirst for Nature was unveiled on 28 June 2024 at Beogradska 44b in Belgrade. It was the eleventh and final mural in KROKODIL’s Free the Streets/Free the People initiative.
💡 Nerd Fact: KROKODIL developed the initiative in response to hate messages on walls across Serbian towns and cities. The murals were produced with local neighbourhoods to reclaim public space for shared use.
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⚔️ Gallos — By Rubin Eynon in Tintagel, England, UK 🇬🇧
Rubin Eynon’s Gallos was unveiled at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in 2016. The eight-foot bronze takes its name from the Cornish word for “power” and draws on both Arthurian legend and Tintagel’s royal history.
💡 Nerd Fact: Tintagel was a royal stronghold of Dumnonia in the fifth and sixth centuries. English Heritage links pottery excavated there to trade with North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.
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🌀 Augere — By Jon Foreman in Druidston, Wales, UK 🇬🇧
Jon Foreman’s Augere sits on the wet sand at Druidston. Rings of beach stones get wider and taller from the tiny pebbles at the center to the large upright stones around the edge. Foreman sits beside it, with the cliffs and sea behind him.
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📚 Stairs of Knowledge — At the University of Balamand, Lebanon 🇱🇧
The University of Balamand library in Lebanon initiated the Stairs of Knowledge project. The staircase features 21 book titles, spanning literature, philosophy and science, including The Epic of Gilgamesh, Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet and Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.
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🧚 Dancing with Dandelions Nouveau — By Robin Wight in Stoke-on-Trent, UK 🇬🇧
Robin Wight made Dancing with Dandelions Nouveau as an exhibition piece for Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent. Photo: FantasyWire.
💡 Nerd Fact: The name Dancing with Dandelions emerged from media coverage when Wight’s fairy sculptures went viral in 2014. In his history of the design, Wight identifies Nouveau as the sixth version, made for a Trentham exhibition marking the tenth anniversary.
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🐂 Bull — By Donghyun Kang
💡 Nerd Fact: Donghyun Kang’s principal sculpture series is called The Forest of Coexistence. His gallery, BLANK SPACE, explains that the series draws on his belief that all life shares an origin and remains interconnected. Kang works with stainless steel and urethane paint.
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❄️ Departure — By George Lundeen in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
George Lundeen’s Departure is a bronze sculpture at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver. The city’s public art register identifies its site as Cleghorn Family Landing and dates its installation to 2013.
💡 Nerd Fact: Departure was Lundeen’s first life-size sculpture, based on a couple he sketched at a railway station in Italy. His later work Valentine imagines the same couple in old age. Idaho State University documents the connection between the two works.
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🌍 Floating Earth — By Luke Jerram in London, UK 🇬🇧
Luke Jerram’s 10-metre Floating Earth was presented on Middle Dock at Canary Wharf for Winter Lights, held from 18 to 28 January 2023. This was a temporary installation.
💡 Nerd Fact: Jerram’s project account lists a surround-sound composition by Dan Jones as part of Floating Earth. Light Night Wigan and Quays Culture co-commissioned the installation before it appeared at Canary Wharf.
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