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🤫 Atlanta’s SECRET Murals - Check out more from @artsatlanta: “Did you know that Atlanta has a graffiti piece that’s 65

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🤫 Atlanta’s SECRET Murals - Check out more from @artsatlanta: “Did you know that Atlanta has a graffiti piece that’s 655 feet long and 100 feet wide?

Here’s an even more interesting trivia fact: If you have ever driven the John Lewis Freedom Parkway, you were probably within a few feet of that very graffiti piece and didn’t even realize it. Sometimes, street art is like that. Occasionally, a hidden gem of artwork is tucked away in a secretive location that you can’t see from the street, in a place where you would have no reason to look. To find it, you would need to be told about it by someone who knows about it. So now I’m going to tell you about a few of Atlanta’s hidden gems of street art. A roof structure sometimes called the “bridge to nowhere” spans a 655-foot-long stretch of Freedom Parkway next to the WSB TV transmission tower. The roof protects cars from falling ice that might form on the tower’s guy wires during winter storms. Atlanta graffiti writer VAYNE used 500 gallons of paint to transform the top surface of the structure into a mega-artwork called Graffiti for the Gods. The piece, which can only be seen from above, was self-funded by the artist, who scrounged paint from places such as Facebook Marketplace and from contractors who had extra. In a recent interview with GULCH magazine, VAYNE told how he discovered the location. “I saw a drone video by QuanATL. They were filming on the Beltline, and they flew up to get a pan of the city. This was in the drone shot. And I was like, holy fuck. This would be crazy.” The finished piece depicts his signature VAYNE spread in massive black and white letters on a yellow background. Love the look? Photographic prints of this work can be purchased through Cat Eye Creative.“ 🎨: VAYNE @bucket_head77 📍: John Lewis Freedom Parkway, just west of the Beltline. 📸: @atlanta_street_art_map #freedomisyourpark #atlanta #mural
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