Street tree

Street tree. 2022.

This mural turns an ordinary brick wall into a kind of shrine for a single tree. The orange circle works like a halo or rising sun, wrapping tightly around the dense green canopy and separating it from the flat grid of painted blocks behind. Below, a dark band hints at a street or plinth, while the heavy sky presses in from above, adding a faint sense of weather and time to an otherwise constructed scene. I was drawn to the way this piece of street art quietly mimics a traditional landscape painting, yet sits in a completely urban setting, asking where nature really lives in the city.

18 mm • f/5.0 • 1/500 sec, ISO 125