Dubbed “Freewall,” a program of temporary outdoor murals has been launched at 12th and Sansom streets.
Sansom Street, between 12th and 13th, might be one of the noisiest blocks in Philadelphia. Garbage bays, construction crews, and helicopters on the roof of nearby Jefferson Hospital create an urban din. Awkward slashes of sunlight slicing between towering buildings create their own cacophony of shadows.
On a wall overlooking a parking lot next to Fergie’s Pub, an abstraction of color and shape swirl across stucco. The lines could have been made by a subtle flick of a wrist, had they been put on a canvas in an artist’s studio. But these are on an enormous scale. Some passers-by say it looks like a stampede of horses on fire.
(via Sansom Street wall becomes canvas for temporary murals — NewsWorks)