Swiss artist Mona Caron‘s building-size murals inject larger-than-life images of verdant botanical life into otherwise drab urban landscapes.
Many of her artworks are vertically aligned apartment blocks in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S. The image above is on a tower block in Quito, Ecuador.
The plants she paints aren’t usually the subject of painterly attention. Caron paints the less-celebrated or obscure flora and weeds, the naturally robust and resilient plants that are the bane of fussy gardeners everywhere. Her work usually depicts plants that are native to the locales where the murals are.
Something about seeing plant life and being in the midst of greenery is uplifting. Her murals breathe life into the human-made landscape. They remind of us the natural world that dwellers of densely populated, densely built-up urban environments often take for granted or don’t experience enough in their daily lives. See more of her work on Instragram at @mona.caron
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