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Chase Dreams

Cyrcle

The Westbound traveler sees the typographical image of the word “CHASE” and horses: black and white, skeleton and muscle. Eastbound is the word “DREAMS.” We’ve used horses in the past, but they mostly have some kind of authoritative figure riding them. In that sense they The Westbound traveler sees the typographical image of the word “CHASE” and horses: black and white, skeleton and muscle. Eastbound is the word “DREAMS.” We’ve used horses in the past, but they mostly have some kind of authoritative figure riding them. In that sense they are tools for powerful people to be more powerful. Our work is always about flipping, breaking and escaping traditional power structures… freedom from the control of the authoritative elite. In this case, the horse is not a tool/vehicle for one of those symbols of power, it’s running wild, free of constraints or military garb; representative of the dream of chasing freedom.

The Zipper, 2705 NE Sandy Blvd., SE façade

year
2015
discipline
mural

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