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Bicycle Traffic

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Two mice on suspended wire

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Untitled (broken bedroom furniture)

About the artists: Claudio Ethos (ETHOS)  Ethos was born in São Paulo in 1982 and currently lives and works there. He began putting in work around the age of 15 with spray paint as well as ballpoint pen, which, to this day, serve as his primary tools. Highly influenced by many of the usual suspects …

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Paramount

The "Paramount" murals on Cherry Creek revisit the history of humanity in America and its relationship with nature. For the two murals framing both sides of the Broadway bridge, Alexander Orion, an internationally recognized artist from Brazil, used a forced perspective technique that distorts paintwork to create an optical illusion when viewed diagonally from the …

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Untitled (abstract flowing waves in blue, white and yellow)

This mural is situated on either side of a staircase leading to the Cherry Creek Bike Trail at 11th Avenue and Speer Boulevard. Artist’s Statement: The mural features a cosmic landscape with a handful of stardust patterns flowing from one end of the design to the other, with several dragon characters flying through the environment. …

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Denver rules everything around me

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Feature Fountain

A depiction of the Rocky Mountain landscape, “Feature Fountain” is located in the Denver Botanic Gardens. It can be found in the south end of the park near the Scripture Gardens. The fifteen foot tall fountain was created with four plyons. Each pylon has a fountain which spills over 1000 gallons of water per minute …

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Calculated Risk

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Reflections

This sculptural work by Frank Swanson features three carved stone elements and was commissioned as a eulogy for Sophia and Morris Strear. 

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At the Library

In Barry Rose’s words: “At the Library” was created with students at Cole Junior High School. Each student sculpted a library book. I filled in with enough to make the rest we needed. I made molds of each and glazed them uniquely, and that was the original project.

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