The end facades of the massive apartment blocks made out of concrete panels, which in a way are infamous symbols for socialist city planning, offer a nice big canvas for street art. Residents, artists, and also property owners are aware of this, so you can see them pretty much anywhere where these kinds of buildings are the norm. Though of course a large flat surface does not guarantee a picture, so it's still a bit of a searching and finding game.
The mural I would like to show you today, as always, as my entry to CCC's weekly Street Art Contest is this slightly faded image of a horse. And yes, though it may not be obvious from this angle, the other two sides of the building have windows and balconies, as you would expect from an apartment building.
Not a Bad Dream By Any Means
What makes this wall painting particularly interesting is the surrounding environment the horse finds itself in. Standing in water, with pigeons flying around it is already dreamy enough, but the whole thing is inside a mansion of some type. The tall ceilings, the numerous picture frames on the wall, and respective window frame suggest wealth, though the place is obviously flooded, and maybe even abandoned. How the horse got there, and what it's doing in the house, remains for us to decide. All in all, the image is interesting to behold, and certainly beats a boring gray wall.
Not Much Further Info
At this point I'm always interested to find out more about the mural, but I could not find any information whatsoever about who painted it, or when, or anything else. The only written text at the bottom turned out to be as cryptic as the image itself, saying: the sun will sink into the ocean. Okay... and then? I would assume nightfall comes next. Still, considering the inevitable does not add a gloomy aspect to it. Instead of lamenting the loss of the mansion, I enjoy looking at the horse in the water.
The image can be seen not far from the corner of Landsberger Allee and Sorkower Straße in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. To see more murals from this cool city, please visit my ongoing series The Walls of Berlin. - And just before posting it, I ran a quick search on this mural... finding out that it was created by Ricky Lee Gordon.