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Last year Thick Bikes expanded their shop and moved the entrance to the side along 15th St. It was a nice improvement on the layout for the store, but even with the bright, new entrance and clever use of plants in front it was easily swallowed up in the drab atmosphere of the narrow one way street. The old warehouse across from them with it's broken, boarded up windows and dreary tan facade overwhelmed the street with
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. This year the corridor was transformed. 15th Street is no longer just another narrow, brown and grey passage way with nothing to set it apart. This year it has art! Lots of art. Artist Baron Batch created a colorful, bright, exuberant corridor with his series of four elephants on the side of that old warehouse. There is no way you can travel down this road now and not notice them. The colors leap out and grab your attention immediately.
Baron likes elephants for several reasons and uses them often to represent
community in his artwork.
Between the elephants, there are some words of wisdom and encouragement. So much of Mr Batch's art include uplifting elements and this series is no exception.
Update: Apr 2017
This mural is gone. Baron Batch replaced this with a mural of butterflies.
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