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

Nadine has a book, a hammock and no urgent plans. David Zinn drew this scene in chalk and charcoal in Laguna Beach in November 2021, turning the joints between bricks into palm trunks and the grass above them into fronds.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsNadine and the Reading PalmsDavid Zinn · 2021 · Laguna Beach, CaliforniaChalk and charcoal on brickNadine, Zinn’s mouse1Zinn’s caption: “Even Nadine sometimes gets too relaxed to read!” He calls the drawing a “temporary street art installation”.zinnart.com2Zinn lists Nadine among his “most enduring characters”: “a mouse of adventure”.zinnart.com20211 NovDrawn, artist’s record20217 NovDaily Pilot: Zinn in town202113 DecCBS News reportRead the full file →

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

A man turns a tuning peg, 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.

💡 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.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsU ChitarraruEdoardo Ettorre · Piazza P. Buffone, RoglianoGulìa Urbana projectContinues a 1991 muralPoet Vincenzo Gallo1Gallo’s father built guitars in the family cellar; Vincenzo learned the trade as a boy, hence the lifelong nickname ’U Chitarraru.ICSAIC2Salvatore Diana’s faded 1991 mural showed him writing a love letter; now the letter is done and he tunes his guitar.La Voce del Savuto1991DianaDiana’s first version202612 SepLa Voce: new mural202630 SepCosenzaOk: on the squareRead the full file →

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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 stands well below 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.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsCut Through HistoryBane · 2023 · Schlossmühlestrasse 9, Frauenfeld3D-anamorphic painting1st Frauenfeld festival1The motif “taps into the history” of the building, reportedly once a tailoring shop. Bane: “…express my respect for the place and its past.”ISAFF2ISAFF describes a seamstress “concentrated on her work with a red cloth”, shown as a 3D-anamorphic painting for the festival’s first edition.ISAFF20231 JunSRF: festival opens20232 JunStreet Art Cities entry2026OctFestival list, checkedRead the full file →

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

Two harbor workers stand at a stone railing and look across the water toward Hamburg, one with an arm around the other’s shoulder. 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.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsNoon HourAPHENOAH · Schmuggelstieg Center, NorderstedtAfter Paul Kayser’s paintingWalls of Vision seriesFaçade provided for free1The duo moved Kayser’s two dock workers closer together to break up the strong-man image and mark human closeness after Corona.Walls of Vision2They turned Kayser’s landscape-format painting into a portrait-format composition to fit the tall façade on Schmuggelstieg.Walls of Vision20237 MayPhoto: being painted20238 MayArtist’s photo: finished202329 NovNorderstedt Marketing20249 DecNew sign addedRead the full file →

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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.

💡 Restoration Fact: In 2024, Zacharevic returned to restore Boy on Chair and two other murals he painted in 2012, after the Penang government reached out over their weathering.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsBoy on ChairErnest Zacharevic · 2012 · Cannon Street, George TownReal chair under the boyGeorge Town Festival 2012Also called Reaching Up1Penang’s state government asked Zacharevic back in 2024; while he repainted the boy, some passers-by thanked him, others bought him biscuits.mySinchew2A photo dated 30 June 2012 shows the boy newly painted; by August 2013 visitors were queuing in front of him.Penang Travel Tips201230 JunPhoto: newly painted201310 AugPhoto: queue of visitors20169 FebPhoto: still there20166 SepThe Star: touch-up202425 SepFMT: restoration20244 OctSin Chew: repainted202523 DecBlog photo, chair brokenRead the full file →

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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 tip with the sun drawn across the road and the wall opposite, making the whole street look like the man’s sketchbook.

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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 in Krasnodar and shared a video of the painting process.

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