Made You Think (9 Photos)

The first look is only the beginning.

A silver balloon questions what is real. Hundreds of tiny figures form a welcome. A painted room shows what a city has failed to provide. These nine works reward a second look and open into a larger idea.

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🎈 El reflejo de Lu — By Martín Ron in Bernal, Argentina 🇦🇷

At Av. San Martín 185 in Bernal, a young woman studies her reflection in a metallic balloon while the wall seems to open around her. Ron first invited the public to suggest a title; the mural was later documented as El reflejo de Lu. In his original post, the artist framed the work around magic, illusion, reflections and the gaze.

💡 Nerd Fact: Ron often writes “Hola Mamá” during the preliminary layout stage. The ritual began in Moscow after he forgot to tell his mother that he had arrived; he adds the phrase during the temporary grid, or garabateo, stage.

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🖤 “I Love You Because We Hate the Same Stuff” — By Morley

Morley turns compatibility into a street-level joke: “I love you because we hate the same stuff.” Blunt, funny and more honest than most love songs.

💡 Nerd Fact: Morley studied screenwriting at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He says street art appealed to him because it let him address an audience without the gatekeepers and middlemen of filmmaking.

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🧜 The Fabulous Tale of Being Different — By Case Maclaim in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

In his original post, Case Maclaim introduced a new fairy-tale protagonist: a confident Black child in a golden wheelchair and a self-made mermaid costume. Painted in Pasaje de la Caja de Ahorros, the mural leaves the character’s story open to the imagination, making difference part of the magic rather than a problem to solve.

💡 Nerd Fact: Case Maclaim holds a diploma in Art Restoration and Conservation from Erfurt University of Applied Sciences and is a founding member of the Maclaim Crew, a group associated with the development of photorealistic graffiti.

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💬 Real Talk — By Dr. Miles Crowley in Kansas City, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸

Outside Q Kansas City at 504 Westport Road, Crowley painted a line by Kalen Dion: “Encouraging someone to be entirely themselves is the loudest way to love them.” It turns a brick wall into advice worth keeping.

💡 Nerd Fact: Crowley is also a board-certified family medicine physician. His University of Kansas Health System profile notes work with its gender-diversity care team and a master’s degree in public health focused on barriers to care.

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👋 Welcome — By PEJAC in Aberdeen, Scotland 🇬🇧

At 41 Union Street, outside a building that houses charities and homes for vulnerable residents, hundreds of tiny figures gather into the word “WELCOME.” PEJAC dedicated the work to people who have been made to feel marginalized, foreign or discriminated against—a welcome formed by those who know its value most.

💡 Nerd Fact: The work was made for Nuart Aberdeen 2022, whose theme was reconnecting the city and its people. It was PEJAC’s second appearance at the festival.

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🦉 Meia Coruja Meia Esticada — By Bordalo II in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹

Bordalo II titled the work Meia Coruja Meia Esticada. Built from discarded materials and originally installed at Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra, the owl is split between an aging wall and a bright assemblage of reused objects.

💡 Nerd Fact: The “II” marks an artistic lineage: Artur Bordalo chose the name in tribute to his grandfather, the painter Real Bordalo.

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🐦 Hope is a Thing with Sequins — By Naomi Haverland in Sioux City, Iowa, USA 🇺🇸

A young boy leans from a painted window, holding a string tied to a sequined paper bird. In Haverland’s original post, the title nods to Emily Dickinson’s image of hope as a bird. Local reporting documented the site as the Heidman Law Firm Building at 1128 4th Street.

💡 Nerd Fact: “Hope” is the thing with feathers is the poem’s first line, not a title chosen by Dickinson. Dickinson titled fewer than ten of her nearly 1,800 poems, so editors usually identify them by first lines or catalogue numbers; this poem is Fr 314.

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🏠 A Home Drawn on Concrete — By Skid Robot in Los Angeles, California, USA 🇺🇸

A painted television, window and furniture turn the bare concrete behind a real mattress into one of Skid Robot’s Los Angeles dream rooms. The Guardian documented how the anonymous artist painted imagined environments around places where unhoused people slept, making what was missing impossible to ignore.

💡 Nerd Fact: After his first night of interventions, Skid Robot bought food and toiletries and began distributing care packages to unhoused residents.

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🪡 Rebuild Yourself — By Dan Ferrer in Torrijos, Spain 🇪🇸

A woman repairs the cracks in herself with thread and patches. The image treats recovery as patient work: the damage is not hidden, but held together with care. Street Art Cities lists it at Calle Palomar 11 in Torrijos.

💡 Nerd Fact: The mural opened the 2021 edition of Torrijos Más Allá de la Pared, a local public-art project that Ferrer and Beatriz Clemente launched in 2016.

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