Dreamers

DMM-2024-00040

Dreamers

Jeff Soto

Max Gramajo [Maxx242]

Created: 2015
Photographed: 2024-09-18

Mural painting and decoration, American--Michigan--Detroit--21st Century.
Cats in art.
Skull in art.
Roses in art.

Against a background of orangish-red this mural depicts two blue skulls decorated with symbols (L: spider web and R: a crown over a heart with wings). The skulls are positioned on either side of a spray paint can upon which a single brown eye is shown. Feathers in deep and light gray create wings that flank the skulls. Three groupings consisting of a single white rose accompanied by several warm gray leaves is found at the left, center and right of the skulls. Beneath the rose groupings a highly stylized face of a black cat is depicted. The cat is shown with large yellow eyes containing diamond-shaped pupils and flattened curved ears. Within the pupils, around the exterior of the yellow eyes and down the nose, are alternating patterns of light gray and blue lines or triangles. A large mouth shaped into a grimace and showing many triangular teeth and a pinkish-orange tongue sits at the bottom of the mural. Small stars and single hairs and whiskers painted in light gray decorate the muzzle of the cat. The star-shapes are repeat in black paint on the wall beyond the muzzle. At the top, above the central imagery, the word "Dreamers" is written in an Old English font in black. The mural is signed in light gray by the artists "Maxx242" and "Soto / 2015"

Still Image

Address: 1421 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, MI, 48207 (side facade facing Russell St.)
Coordinates: 42.34434787490468, -83.03844694450783

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