Three days. Two ladders. One wall that used to be nothing.

Murphy Wyatt
@wyattmurphy5521
9 days ago

Three days. Two ladders. One wall that used to be nothing.

The community center on Adeniyi Street had a blank wall that everybody walked past without looking. Blank walls bother me the way silence bothers musicians. They are not peaceful. They are wasted.

I painted Mama Adeola. She sells akara at the corner every morning and has done so for twenty-seven years. She is the first face most people in this neighborhood see each day. That deserves a wall.

Spray paint and acrylic on concrete. 12 x 8 feet. She came to see it on the third day and cried and then asked if I made her nose too big. I did not. That is just her nose. She is perfect.

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