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18-Oct-2020

500 12th Street SE

I’ve been seeing this mural on the wall of a CVS pharmacy for years but never really looked at it. The tree is a mosaic of tiles and mirrors, which I thought was very clever.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is offering a new walking tour, this time featuring murals around the Hill, about which they say:

“Capitol Hill is home to many dazzling (some, quite literally) works of art, painted on the exteriors of homes and businesses. Some murals are well known to the community – but we’ve included them because we love them and the Mural Tour wouldn’t be complete without them. Others may be familiar only to their immediate neighbors. Several of them have been on view for decades but many are more recent, including those that are part of the DC Statehood Murals project. A couple are on the sidewalk. One is not actually a mural at all but it’s art on the exterior of a structure, so no reason not to give it the attention it deserves. … Art is always best appreciated in person; particularly true in this case where the scale and placement of the work made photography a challenge.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

1333 H Street NE, posted earlier:

Apple iPhone 11 Pro
1/637s f/1.8 at 4.2mm iso32 full exif

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Zoltán Balogh28-Oct-2020 06:46
Fantastic work of art! V
Julie Oldfield22-Oct-2020 17:59
It’s beautiful.
janescottcumming22-Oct-2020 12:52
That is very clever! It reminds me of a tree I made for some elementary school children. Every leaf they put on the tree had the name of a book they had read on it. The kids loved filling out the tree with all the books they had read. V
Kevin Warren22-Oct-2020 11:13
A beautifully made mural and your photo certainly does it justice.
John Hamers22-Oct-2020 11:01
Very beautiful and creative mix of tiles and mirrors and a great capture. !V
marie-jose wolff22-Oct-2020 10:22
a really beautiful mural with this huge tree spreading out its branches and roots! V
Dennis Hoyne22-Oct-2020 03:53
Very unique, this one should outlast all the others.
joseantonio22-Oct-2020 03:48
another lovely mural.This is really amazing.V.
Gill Kopy22-Oct-2020 03:15
Oh ! I love this one - beautifully done and nicely captured :) V
barbarajoy21-Oct-2020 21:28
That mural is a really lovely example of wall-art, as we refer to it here. A great gallery Helen. V
victorswan21-Oct-2020 21:13
amazing, these murals bring some color to the neighborhood and do attract attention, they are handsome artists, and you portray them so professionally, beautiful work Helen BV