When You Can Feel the Motion (8 Photos)

July 28, 2026

By Vidar

Eight artworks caught between one moment and the next.

Every work is still, but none feels stopped. Scrap metal streams into the wind, a fencer repeats one lunge, and figures swing, tumble, drive and fall across walls and public space.

🌬️ “You Blew Me Away 8” — By Penny Hardy, UK 🇬🇧

Old gears, chains, tools and curved scraps form a standing body, then stream away behind it like metal caught in a hard gust. Hardy describes the “Blown Away” series as a response to strong emotions and external forces. Her portfolio listing records “You Blew Me Away 8” as a 159-centimeter-high mild-steel sculpture in an edition of nine, assembled from found scrap metal to give discarded parts renewed life and energy.

💡 Nerd Fact: Before establishing her sculpture practice, Hardy trained in scientific illustration and worked as a freelance illustrator for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1993 to 1996. Her training emphasized observational drawing and the close study of natural structure.

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🤺 “Planes of Engagement” — By Li-Hill in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸

Li-Hill’s project archive identifies the 2014 mural as “Planes of Engagement,” created with the Savage Habit Mural Project. The fencer repeats across the wall, with pale transparent limbs recording one fast lunge while a bright blue band cuts through the sequence like a film frame. Street Art Cities records the mural at 275 1st Street.

💡 Motion-Study Fact: Fencing was already the subject of motion studies in 1906. Georges Demeny whitened an Olympic fencer’s blade with chalk and waxed its tip so rapid exposures could record its path; Li-Hill also created another mural based on a motion study by Demeny’s collaborator Étienne-Jules Marey.

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🎈 “L’invitation au voyage” — By SETH in Paris, France 🇫🇷

A child sits above the city beneath a huge bunch of balloons. A painted opening turns the wall into sky. The Croulebarbe neighborhood council’s June 2026 journal identifies the mural as “L’invitation au voyage”. SETH returned to 2 Rue Émile-Deslandres, at Rue Croulebarbe, after thermal-insulation work erased his earlier painting, the 2013 “La Fille au parapluie”.

Photo by Corto.

💡 Film Fact: The single red balloon is a narrative reference rather than a stray color accent. The neighborhood council’s account says SETH used it to echo his Belleville works and to extend the final scene of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short film The Red Balloon, which won the Palme d’Or for short film and the Academy Award for original screenplay.

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🧩 Building in Motion — By Peeta in Porrentruy, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Beige ribbons wrap around the real windows while painted shadows make the apartment block look as if it is folding open. In his post about the finished work, Peeta calls it an anamorphic mural and says he wanted its shapes and composition to blend with the surroundings. The work stands at La Colombière 7 and was created for the 2026 Porrentruy POPA Festival with the POPA Museum and Art From Street.

💡 Name Fact: Peeta began writing graffiti in 1993, and the first forms he treated as sculptural objects were the individual letters of his own moniker. His account describes his later work as a progressive expansion of those letterforms across painting and sculpture.

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🚀 “Monkeys. Flying through space.” — By The Highness in Sickla, Nacka, Sweden 🇸🇪

Suited monkeys tumble in different directions across a field of stars and colored clouds. The Highness titled the 2021 mural “Monkeys. Flying through space.” It was painted at Konstjord’s creative co-work in Sickla, which now lists the site as Nobelbergsgatan 6, Nacka. The scattered bodies keep the square wall in constant motion.

💡 Spaceflight Fact: The first primate in space was not a chimpanzee but Albert II, a rhesus macaque launched on a V-2 rocket on 14 June 1949. He reached 83 miles (134 kilometers) on a suborbital flight but died on impact after the recovery parachute failed.

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🚗 “Road Live” — By Román Linacero (Sr Momán) in Nava de la Asunción, Spain 🇪🇸

Nava de la Asunción’s official mural route lists “Road Live” as Sr Momán’s 24th mural in the town, painted in 2023 at Calle de Andrés Sanz 15. It describes the work as a “pictorial twinning” between Nava and San Pietro Valdastico in Italy: Maya sits on the roof while Gianni, a local resident in his nineties, drives his Fiat.

💡 Route Fact: Nava’s mural route began in 2013 when Linacero persuaded a relative to let him experiment on the wall of a family house. The municipal catalog now records more than twenty works, including murals that have since changed or disappeared, with some now surviving only in photographs.

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☀️ A Swing in the Summer Light — By ATTORREP (Antonino Perrotta) in Belsito, Italy 🇮🇹

A girl swings out from a sunlit wall toward the hills and rooftops beyond it. Created in Belsito in 2022 for Gulìa Urbana, the swing is described as a metaphor for life moving between changing circumstances and opposing thoughts and feelings. Documentation of the mural credits the photograph to Iacopo Munno.

💡 Language Fact: Gulìa is a southern Italian dialect word for an intense wish or craving. The Rublanum collective adopted the name for a project founded in 2012 to create free, site-specific open-air museums across small Calabrian towns.

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❤️ “Falling in Love” — By The Rebel Bear in Glasgow, Scotland 🇬🇧

Two black-and-white figures drop headfirst past a small red heart. Visit Glasgow describes the mural as a literal image of a couple falling in love, while Street Art Cities records it at 16 Candleriggs. The nearly empty wall leaves the tilt of the bodies to supply the fall and the title to supply the joke.

💡 Persona Fact: The name is also part of the artist’s working persona: Visit Glasgow records that The Rebel Bear wears a pink bear costume while producing work.

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