Art You Love (9 Photos)

A hidden shelf, a grass mustache, and a street that seems to move.

A grass mustache and a painted shelf share this collection with a house-sized nightingale, riders standing in the sea and a street of dunes. Nine works span chalk art, murals, sculpture and optical illusions.

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🪴 The Secret Corner Shelf — By JanIsDeMan in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

JanIsDeMan turns a blank gable wall into a shelf with four recessed compartments. Board games, a glass jug, a potted plant, a watering can and a toy figure fill the painted spaces. The brickwork around them is part of the illusion too: the before photograph shows a plain rendered wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: JanIsDeMan has involved residents in selecting the contents of his murals: his bookshelf projects include local people’s favorite books.

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🌿 Leonard’s Grass Mustache — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

Two tufts of grass growing through a pavement crack become Leonard’s oversized mustache. He wears a brown suit, red tie and monocle. David Zinn introduced him with the motto “cultivate abundance where you find it.”

💡 Nerd Fact: Zinn’s temporary street drawings use chalk, charcoal, and found objects, and are improvised on location.

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🌊 “The Rising Tide” — By Jason deCaires Taylor in Haugesund, Norway 🇳🇴

Four horses and their riders stand in shallow water at The Rising Tide in Kvalsvik, just north of Haugesund. Each horse has an oil-well pump in place of its head. Jason deCaires Taylor installed this version in 2021; the sculptures were first exhibited in London’s River Thames in 2015. Taylor lists stainless steel, pH-neutral cement, basalt and aggregates among their materials. Fjord Norway’s visitor guide describes the short walk from Kvalsvik’s car park to the sculptures.

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🐦 “Nesting Time” — By Andrii Palval in Aielli, Italy 🇮🇹

A nightingale fills the side of a house beside a stone staircase, its long tail reaching almost to street level. The person standing below gives a sense of its size. Andrii Palval painted it for Borgo Universo in 2023, along the steps leading to Aielli’s Torre delle Stelle.

💡 Nerd Fact: Nesting Time is a three-part project spread across Aielli, Waterford and Belfast. The works grew out of a shared artist residency linking Borgo Universo, Waterford Walls and Hit the North.

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🌊 “Sostenibile Sostenersi” — By C0110 in Caorle, Italy 🇮🇹

A fisherman cradles a cormorant carrying a fish in its beak. Real windows cut across the painted hands and bird. C0110 made the mural on Via del Rombo for Caorle Sea Festival, which describes the work as a portrait of the coastal community’s relationship with the sea.

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🏜️ “Moving Dunes” — By NÓS Architectes with MU in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦

Bands of ochre, cream and brown make a flat street look as if it rises and dips like sand dunes. Mirrored spheres reflect the surrounding buildings and curve the painted lines further. NÓS Architectes created Moving Dunes with MU for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2018 as a temporary installation on Du Musée Avenue beside the museum. It accompanied the exhibition From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present and remained in place until October 29, 2018.

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🌺 “Cyanidin & Begonia Semperflorens” — By Fabio Petani in Trnava, Slovakia 🇸🇰

A bouquet of pink begonias floats against gray tree silhouettes and a turquoise ring on an apartment building’s end wall. Fabio Petani painted Cyanidin & Begonia Semperflorens at Nerudova 4 over five days in May 2026 as part of Trnava’s Galéria ulice project. Petani describes the gray trees as autumn and winter, with the flowers bringing spring and summer into the same scene.

🔗 See Fabio Petani’s original post and follow Fabio Petani on Instagram.

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🏗️ Pillar Illusion — By Odeith

Blue letters spelling ODEITH appear to project from a concrete pillar inside a derelict industrial building. Painted edges and dark shading make the letters look like solid objects attached to the column. The illusion uses perspective across different surfaces, a technique central to Odeith’s work.

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♻️ “Castillos de plástico” (Plastic Castles) — By Da2 / Dadospuntocero in La Bañeza, Spain 🇪🇸

A child crouches on a sunny beach with a blue bucket and green spade, building a castle filled with discarded plastic. The clear sea and sky contrast with the rubbish packed into the castle. Painted for Art Aero Rap, the mural is on Calle Don Pedro el Oculista 30, La Bañeza. The Street Art Cities entry links the work to plastic pollution and the importance of teaching children to recycle.

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