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Murals and prints
2024
Corner Shop Mural
A fourteen metre wall for a neighbourhood grocery, painted in nine very hot days.
Role
Murals and prints
Timeline
9 days on site
Client
Mercearia do Canto
Year
2024
the challenge
Fourteen metres of grocery
Mercearia do Canto is a corner shop that has been there for sixty years. They asked for a wall that told the neighbourhood story: the tram, the bakery queue, the cat that owns the street.
Nine days, two ladders, one sunburn. The mural is still there and the cat still sits in front of the part of the wall where I painted the cat.
my approach
Painting in public
Every morning started with a chalk grid, then big flat colour, then the details in the late afternoon shade. People stopped to chat, and a few of their stories ended up on the wall.
We sealed the mural with an anti graffiti coat, so the shop can wash it down and keep it bright for years.
the results
of painted wall
14 m
years of shop history
60
Client said
Neighbours stop to take photos every day.
