The kids on this street asked me to paint their heroes.

Murphy Wyatt
@wyattmurphy5521
9 days ago

The kids on this street asked me to paint their heroes.

I expected them to say footballers. Musicians. Maybe Spiderman.

They said their mothers.

So I painted five mothers on the wall of the abandoned building at the end of their street. Five women carrying the world in different ways. One balancing a basin on her head. One holding a child. One reading a book. One cooking. One just standing, arms at her sides, resting.

The resting one was the hardest to paint because rest does not look like much from the outside. But the kids said that is their favorite. Because their mothers never rest.

Spray paint and house paint on concrete. 20 x 10 feet. The biggest piece I have ever done and the one that matters most.

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