Orleans St + Patterson Park Ave, McElderry Park The mural is the first phase of the Derrick Smith Memorial Garden. Please share and donate to our crowd funding site https://www.gofundme.com/xef8ug

Process

Jefferson St + N Decker St, Highlandtown http://bmoreart.com/2015/08/open-hearts.html

Commission by the homeowner as an anniversary gift for his wife. With Edgar Reyes and youth from Mi Espacio we created a mural representing the diverse community coexisting in harmony with nature and with each other.

Ciudad Vieja, Uruguay

14’ x 25’ Acrylic and spray paint

Collaboration with Mas Paz

Part of the Breathing Peace campaign, this mural was created together with the teachers, students, and community at La Escuela Tupac Amaru. The mural shows symbols of Peruvian culture and their connection with nature and music. Two kids, a boy and a girl on each end of the mural, are playing the sampon?a, and from the vibrations of the music the mountains are created and in the center a green heart is absorbing all of the vibrations. From the heart the coca leaf is growing, which then comes back and surrounds the kids again. Also from the heart grows, the sacred animals of Peru. There are hands holding the heart, they are the hands of Tupac Amaru. You also see his feet, bound by ropes, which I painted in colors flying through the mountains, representing the rainbows in the colors of the Incan flag. The writing on the mural is a poem written by an Argentinian poet who collaborated on the project and Quechua writing by the kids from the school.

To start the campaign, Respirando Paz, I chose the place where I grew up, Uruguay. In the neighborhood where my mother and grandmother live, in honor and gratitude to them, who taught me the values of sharing and respect. The morning after I arrived from Baltimore, I woke up in my mom’s house with water almost to my knees. This was the first time I experienced a flood. All the houses and almost the whole neighborhood was underwater and we needed to leave the house. Luckily, my grandmother’s house was not totally underwater and my sister, stepfather, and I moved to stay with her. But other people in the neighborhood had to go to the high school gym to find a shelter until the water went away. That gym is where I decided to paint the mural. I went to visit the shelter where there were around 8 to 10 families. When I got there I saw many blankets of different colors hanging in the windows to dry, kids playing different games, and many families sharing the same roof. This scene inspired me to create the mural that I would like to describe with this poem: When the mother cries With her tears She cleans our bodies and our eyes The clarity returns We realize what we are and where we came from I become a child Innocent and vulnerable I imagine the mother with giant green hands Hanging in the sun to dry A blanket of the colors of humanity I see doves of peace Helping her to mend the blanket Many growing daisies And Carlito, the cat, immortalized in the top of the tower I see hope. - Pablo Machioli

Fairmount Ave + Stripper St, Baltimore, MD

This mural started with a request from the Patterson Park Neighborhood Association to create a mural to inspire peace, unity, and respect for diversity in this fast growing neighborhood. Mother nature's arms warmed By colorful patches of human skin. Urgently they break through Among millions of fallen daisies And open our windows. They beg us to look outwards They beg us to look inwards. Outside there is Milagro She is my sister She is nine years old. Each time she inhales, a daisy falls Each time she exhales, a dove is born Each dove brings a vein in its beak: To continue sewing patches To continue warming arms To continue opening windows To enable us to look outwards and inwards And to let us breath peace. -Pablo Machioli

Painted at Phaze Two Barber Shop / North Ave + Whitelock St as part of the Eubie Blake: Sandtown Mural Project.

I created this painting following a Baltimore Uprising protest on May Day, 2015. Then did a live painting of this mural on stage with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at their One Baltimore concert later that month.

Photo by Chris Metzger, photographer and organizer of the Morgan State Black Lives Matter Inside Out Project.

Collaboration with Gaia and Morgan State's Black Lives Matter Inside Out Project. Painted at 1400 Greenmount Avenue.

In process

Painted at Westwood Ave + N Mount St in Sandtown in response to the Baltimore Uprising. It was a gift to the Sandtown community where the uprising started.

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

42" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

Photo Credit: BOPA