In Their Own World (8 Photos)

Street art in a world of its own

A guitarist checks his strings while a tiny reader settles into a hammock. These eight street artworks make room for private projects and unhurried pauses, from a book on the pavement to a view across the water.

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🎸 “U Chitarraru” — By Edoardo Ettorre in Rogliano, Italy 🇮🇹

A man checks the tuning pegs, with sheet music and a quill on the table beside him. Ettorre’s guitarist is Vincenzo Gallo, the Rogliano poet known as U Chitarraru. The mural is on Piazza Buffone, the town’s main square, CosenzaOk reported.

💡 Story Fact: For Gulìa Urbana, Ettorre continued a scene painted by Salvatore Diana in 1991: the poet has finished a love letter and is getting ready to turn it into a song.

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📖 “Nadine and the Reading Palms” — By David Zinn in Laguna Beach, USA 🇺🇸

Nadine has a book, a hammock and no urgent plans. David Zinn made this scene in Laguna Beach, turning the joints between bricks into palm trunks and the grass above them into fronds.

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✂️ “Cut Through History” — By Fabian Bane Florin in Frauenfeld, Switzerland 🇨🇭

She holds the red fabric steady and works the scissors, while a real person below barely reaches the painted window. The folded cloth spills over the edge of Bane’s illusion.

💡 Building Fact: The building was once a tailoring shop. Bane chose the seamstress for the first Street Art Festival Frauenfeld as a nod to that history.

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✏️ “Drawing a Sun” — By Cosimo Cheone Caiffa in Italy 🇮🇹

The face and hand are carefully rendered; the smiling sun is a much quicker job. Cheone lines up the pencil with the buildings across the road, making the whole street look like the man’s sketchbook.

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🪑 “Boy on Chair” — By Ernest Zacharevic in George Town, Malaysia 🇲🇾

The boy is painted; the chair beneath his feet is real. On Cannon Street, he stretches toward a hole in the wall, just short of whatever has caught his attention.

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☕ “Drinking Coffee” — By Ksenia Kokel in Krasnodar, Russia 🇷🇺

An orange hat, a black cup and a glance to one side. Kokel gives this coffee break the whole wall; her process video dates it to Krasnodar, 2021.

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🖌️ “Roller Crosswalk” — By Cosimo Cheone Caiffa in Trezzano sul Naviglio, Italy 🇮🇹

Cheone’s painter has a job that extends beyond his wall. The roller meets a real crosswalk stripe, and an ordinary road marking looks like unfinished work.

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⛵ “Midday” — By APHENOAH in Norderstedt, Germany 🇩🇪

Two men lean on a railing and look across the water, their backs turned to the street. APHENOAH brought Paul Kayser’s harbor scene to this tall facade for Walls of Vision.

💡 Painting Fact: The duo moved the workers closer together and updated the skyline when adapting Kayser’s horizontal painting to the vertical wall.

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