Let the World Wait (8 Photos)

September 29, 2026

By Vidar

Sometimes, the world can wait

Ella & Pitr wrapped a sleeping giant around an entire house in Stavanger, Norway, one hand dangling above the street. Nobody in these eight murals and sculptures seems in any hurry to get up.

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🐴 Sand Horse — By Andoni Bastarrika in Zarautz, Spain 🇪🇸

A rounded stone becomes a headrest. Bastarrika shapes the horse’s muzzle, ear and neck from sand beside the water, leaving one eye open.

💡 Artist Fact: A May 2022 report by EITB shows Bastarrika making this horse’s head and neck on Zarautz beach, a job that took him about seven hours.

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🌳 Marwin — By Thomas Dambo in Clinton, Iowa, USA 🇺🇸

Flat on his back, arms out, feet up. Marwin has claimed the shade of an old oak at Bickelhaupt Arboretum. Image via Eastern Iowa Community Colleges.

💡 Troll Fact: Marwin is one of the three brothers in Dambo’s The Tree Thieves. The artist’s project page uses Marwin; local partners also use the spelling Marvin.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsMarvinThomas Dambo · 2026 · Bickelhaupt Arboretum, Clinton, IowaReclaimed local woodThe Tree ThievesNapping under an oak1His fur is old flooring from the Eagle Point Park lodge, his hair is city-crew branches, and the Sawmill Museum milled the lumber.EICC2Quad-City Times photos show children playing at the newly finished Marvin on 20 April 2026.Quad-City Times2025SepArboretum site in the news202614 AprBeing built202620 AprFinished202630 AprUnveiled20261 MayRibbon cutting94K+Sep 2026Visitors in 3 months (organizers)202629 SepStill thereRead the full file →

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🧸 Sleeping Girl — By Tom Wild Sketch in Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭

The girl curls across the end of the underpass, holding a teddy bear close beneath her cheek. Denim, boot laces and the bear’s worn-looking fabric are painted at a scale that makes the passage feel very small. The strip lights overhead do not seem to bother her.

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🐈 Sleeping Kitten 2 — By WA in Lima, Peru 🇵🇪

The cat has found a space that fits. WA folds the ginger body around the corner, with paws on the painted floor and a real column passing in front.

💡 Artist Fact: WA was the signature of Marko Franco Domenak, a muralist from Sullana who lived in Lima’s Mirones neighborhood. He was killed in Lima in December 2022. El Comercio’s look back at his work recalls an enormous cat he painted sleeping beneath the columns of a building in Mirones.

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🧒 Jack in the Box — By Seth in Aalborg, Denmark 🇩🇰

The boy rests his head on folded arms, knees pulled to his chest. Seth gives him almost the entire gable, yet he looks tucked into a small space. A colored pencil is still in his hand.

💡 Place Fact: KIRK Gallery documents Jack in the Box at Østerbro 41 in Aalborg in 2019.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsJack in the BoxSeth · 2019 · Østerbro 41, AalborgOut in the Open 2019First Danish wall (KIRK)Gable mural1KIRK Gallery says it had long wanted Seth in Aalborg, and this was the first work he made in Denmark.KIRK Gallery2Only this wall was booked; Seth spotted bricked-up windows on Østerbro, asked to paint them too, and got permission within a day.AalborgNu20197 AugBeing painted201920 AugFinished2019OctOn Street Art Cities2020OctVisitor photo2024AugPhoto published202615 SepMarked as seenRead the full file →

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🛏️ Where Are We Meeting Tonight — By Speker 1 in Morelia, Mexico 🇲🇽

Speker brings the warm light of a bedroom onto an outdoor wall. The woman holds the pillow to her cheek, eyes closed. She is not getting up any time soon.

💡 Festival Fact: Speker’s project page identifies this as a 2025 mural for Morelia’s Harto Arte festival.

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🏠 A Giant Curled Around a House — By Ella & Pitr in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴

Knees tucked up, cheek on the patterned sleeve, glasses still on. Ella & Pitr bend the resting figure to fit the walls, while the doors and windows carry on being doors and windows. The person walking past gives the scale. Photo: Ian Cox, Nuart 2015.

💡 Festival Fact: Ella & Pitr took part in Nuart 2015, fitting their giants onto rooftops and houses around Stavanger. This figure appears to be one half of Wake Me Up When It’s Done, which Nuart describes as a wrap-around diptych on two homes about 100 meters apart in the Storhaug district, with a male and a female giant contorted to fit the walls.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsWake Me Up When It’s DoneElla & Pitr · 2015 · Pedersgata 9, StavangerNuart 2015Half of a diptychSleeping giant1Nuart describes a male and a female giant, cramped into two houses about 100 m apart under one title.Nuart2The developer told the city in May 2020 that the house at Pedersgata 9 had been demolished.Stavanger kommune2015SepPainted2017SepSeen intact2018OctSeen intact2019MayOn Street View2019JulLast photo✕May 2020Demolished2022JunNew building2023SepOther half still thereRead the full file →

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💤 Eros on the Square — By Ella & Pitr in Quadrivio di Campagna, Italy 🇮🇹

One arm under his head, ankles crossed, Eros stretches across a whole square. Seen from above, the nearby cars look like toys. Image via URBAN AREA.

💡 Place Fact: In URBAN AREA’s 2015 project text, the giant is nicknamed Eros and lies across Angeli della Strada, the local market square. The project set out to give the neighborhood more use of a square that was mostly a Monday market and a parking lot. Artribune reported in August 2015 that the painting covers about 3,600 square meters (120 by 30 meters), and that once it was finished the town closed Piazza Angeli della Strada to cars.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsErosElla & Pitr · 2015 · Piazza Angeli della Strada, Quadrivio di CampagnaGround muralAbout 120 × 30 mURBAN AREA 20151Cars were banned from the market square on 27 July 2015, the day painting began; the ban was soon declared permanent.Art Vibes2The artists subtitled it “How to stop sucking your thumbs”; on 1 August local children gathered on it to draw what the square should become.Artribune201527 JulPainting starts20151 AugKids’ workshop201518 SepSeen from space✕Oct 2018Gone, cars back2025AprBuilding site2026JunPark 59% paidRead the full file →