giant wildflower blossoms across a 20-storey façade in jersey city, US

san francisco-based artist mona caron has created a large-scale mural of a wildflower blooming across a jersey city’s building façade. a lonely joe pye weed — a local native wild plant— dances unruly with its dense sharp leaves rising from a black backdrop of a 20-storey building.

joe pye weed is a wildflower from the eutrochium genus

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mona caron focuses on community-informed and site-specific murals in public space. this monumental art piece is the latest of her work and takes part in the jersey city mural arts initiative. the swiss-born artist has investigated stop-motion animation as part of her ‘weeds’ project, and co-creates visuals for street actions responding to social and environmental issues. 

‘a local native wild plant, a so-called joe pye weed, will be facing off the skyline across the hudson on its own. a dream of nature winning, of plant life being the one towering over us for a change, putting us back in our place,’ as mentioned in her instagram post.

mona continues to create murals in public space and art-ivism with social movements

the black background pops up the vitality of the plant

 

 

 

 

 

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drawing phase

image courtesy of nickkasimatis

dense sharp leaves rising from a black backdrop

project info:

artist: mona caron