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Sky-High Murals Reveal Hidden Poetry After Dark

The key to these murals' transformations? Turning out the lights.
Unawareness, night. All images courtesy Reskate Arts and Crafts Studio

Positioned parallel to the Spanish horizon, a mural of a massive loaf of bread (below) rises above streets sans context—that is, until the sun goes down, and the mural’s overall image makes a drastic transformation. Concealing a latent graphic of a serrated knife, the mural is the work of Spanish art studio Reskate Arts and Crafts. The collective’s unique approach to coloring murals with a revelatory element makes each creation a completely different beast under the guise of night. Reflective of a more complex message, each mural conveys a duplicitous message, one side simple and pure, while underneath, the morality seeps through.

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Take, for example, a mural of Saturn and its rings—underneath, this perfectly ubiquitous visual is a deep-dive helmet, reminscent of a perilous pursuits in arctic waters. According to a project description, the mural strives to spotlight how deep-sea exploration decelerated after the beginning of the space race between USSR and the USA. The graphic of a wide loaf of bread harbowing a jagged blade communicates a message of agency, and the potential of the current generation, equipped with so much knowledge at our fingertips, to find the solutions to world hunger by considering the available tools and getting invovled.

Reskate titles the public art undertaking the Harreman Project; "harreman" is the Basque word for "relationship." Within the etymology of harreman, are the words hartu, to receive, and eman, to give.

See the "before" and "after" images of Reskate's phosphorescent murals below:

See more work from Reskate Studios, on their website, here, and their Facebook and Instagram.

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