12 of the Most Loved Photos on Street Art Utopia (vol. 3)
By Vidar
A willow archer. David Bowie reflected in an eye.
A chalk joke built around a landscaping stone and a tree turned into a paintbrush are among these 12 reader favorites.
🏹 The Spirit of the Medieval Hunter — By Anna & The Willow in Skipton Castle Woods, England 🇬🇧
Anna Cross, who works as Anna & The Willow, created the original nine-foot archer for a 2018 Woodland Trust commission. Woven from English willow over a steel frame, the figure stands near the Old Sawmill entrance in Skipton Castle Woods and recalls the woods’ medieval role as Skipton Castle’s hunting ground and larder.
💡 Nerd Fact: After the original archer and Stalking Horse willow sculptures deteriorated, Sylvan Skills rebuilt and rewove both in 2024. The sparse metal frames were replaced with more substantial structures featuring an inner layer woven in spirals and curves. The archer was also made slightly fuller and given a bow shaped more like a traditional yew bow.
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🪟 Murillo’s Two Women at a Real Window — By Oakoak
Oakoak includes this exact intervention on his official website. It places the figures from Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Two Women at a Window in a real window opening, behind the existing sill and iron railing.
💡 Nerd Fact: Murillo’s sitters have never been securely identified. The National Gallery of Art discusses two possible readings: the younger woman may be a prostitute beckoning a customer, or a woman of good standing attended by a chaperone. Covering a smile or laugh was considered good etiquette among the aristocracy.
More: Wrong but Right: Art by Oakoak
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🐭 Nadine and the Surprisingly Effective Joke — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
Nadine stands beside a laughing creature whose head is a landscaping stone.
💡 Nerd Fact: Zinn’s own page for the work dates this temporary Ann Arbor piece to March 14, 2021, and lists its materials as chalk, charcoal, and a landscaping stone. Nadine is one of his recurring characters, described by the artist as “a mouse of adventure.”
More: Nadine and the Surprisingly Effective Joke
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🤖 R2-D2 Giving Flowers to a Trash Can — By EFIX
R2-D2 holds out three flowers to a trash can while a red heart floats above him.
💡 Nerd Fact: EFIX featured this intervention in a reel he posted on December 20, 2022. His paper works are installed with a biodegradable paste made from flour, sugar, and water, allowing the collages to disappear over time.
More: EFIX’s Clever Art
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🚗 Classic Day — By Odeith
Viewed from one precise angle, Odeith’s anamorphic painting makes a concrete block look like a black Rolls-Royce.
💡 Nerd Fact: The car’s bonnet ornament is Rolls-Royce’s Spirit of Ecstasy, which was registered as the company’s intellectual property on February 6, 1911. Sculptor Charles Sykes developed it from The Whisper, an earlier bronze figure made for motoring pioneer Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
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📝 “People Don’t Pretend to Be Depressed. They Pretend to Be Happy.” — By Dotmaster
A child in checkerboard trousers reaches toward the handwritten message above. Dotmaster’s signature sits beside the black-and-white stencil figure.
💡 Nerd Fact: Dotmaster says his Rude Kids stencil series began with his own nine-year-old daughter. By its tenth anniversary in 2024, the cast had expanded beyond the original Hackney group to include friends’ and relatives’ children, with some joining from Osaka, Stavanger, and the Wirral.
More: The message by Dotmaster
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👁️ Eye Mural at The Cartford — By My Dog Sighs in Little Eccleston, England 🇬🇧
The wall looks back. My Dog Sighs’s official portfolio labels the image “Cartford Inn – David Bowie in eye”. Turquoise paint runs across the cracked surface.
💡 Nerd Fact: The Cartford has two treehouse-style lodges, Robin’s Nest and Ziggy’s. The same page quotes a guest who found a selection of Bowie LPs in one of the cabins.
More: Eyes That Speak: My Dog Sighs
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⭕ Circles — By Spencer Byles near La Colle-sur-Loup, France 🇫🇷
A local account of an artist-guided visit places the rings in woods near La Colle-sur-Loup. Three woven circles frame the path, built largely from branches and other found materials gathered on site.
💡 Nerd Fact: The only material Byles brought in was a small amount of cable used to stabilize some structures. He considered the works complete only when nature began reclaiming them.
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📷 Photo by Leo Fry
🖌️ Painting Tree — By Semi O.K. in Kartal, Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷
At 100 Yıl Ali Rıza Efendi Ortaokulu in Kartal, the real trunk becomes a giant brush handle. A painted hand grips it while painted bristles meet a blue spill across the pavement.
💡 Name Fact: The school states that it was named for Ali Rıza Efendi, the father of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, to mark the centenary of Ali Rıza Efendi’s birth.
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🎩 Charlie Chaplin — By Tom Bob in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸
At Canterbury Street Magnet School, a wall-mounted sprinkler panel becomes Charlie Chaplin’s face, with its two circular fittings turned into eyes. A diagonal pipe becomes his cane, while the bowler hat and body are painted onto the brick wall.
💡 Nerd Fact: Tom Bob shared the finished piece on September 1, 2017, tagging POW! WOW! Worcester and adding the hashtags #canterbury and #school. Audiences first saw Chaplin’s Tramp in Kid Auto Races at Venice, released on February 7, 1914.
More: 33 Artworks by Tom Bob
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🐗 Old Sow between Trees — By Hannelie Coetzee at Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden 🇸🇪
At Wanås Konst, carefully stacked logs and branches form a huge wild boar between the trees. The cut ends resolve into a pixel-like image from a distance and become rough timber up close.
💡 Nerd Fact: Coetzee made the work for Wanås Konst’s 2015 Barriers – Contemporary South Africa exhibition. Her project record lists wood, metal, and oil, gives its scale as 7 metres high, 5 metres wide, and 10 metres deep, and explains that the wild boar was chosen to explore ecology, sustainability, and coexistence with other species.
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🕊️ Dove of Peace — By Hannah Bullen-Ryner in the UK 🇬🇧
A white dove takes shape on the ground.
💡 Nerd Fact: In her original post dated February 27, 2022, Bullen-Ryner said the dove was made in response to the war in Ukraine. She identified its materials as white blossoms, small white feathers, and wilted crocus petals.
More: Nature Is Everything: Hannah Bullen-Ryner
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Un peu plus prêt serait mieux avec le regard centre sur la direction du centre de l’image vers la direction de la flèche il est statique il manque le dynamisme du mouvement son énergie et son regard elle est très belle artistiquement mais juste un peu triste
..désolée si je t’ai vexée ce n’était pas intétionnel tu me manques ta fantaisie ton ironie ta fougue . Il y a la beauté et le doute il manque le rêve de tzleusha l’intensité des couleurs …le savoureux de l’image. …augmenter un tout petit peu la saturation colorée. .
So cute.