Murals of Canada – The 3D Mural on Lyrics Recording Studio

I have been here before. In fact, I even mentioned a murals on the the wall of Lyrics Recording Studio in a recent post, down towards the end of it. The green wall painting with the puma already shows immense artistic skills, but there was one on another wall of the same building that I kept coming back for. I was getting a bit annoyed that there were always parked cars in front of it, so I couldn’t get a nice shot. But then again, this gave me a fun challenge. And since it was on the way to the bike-shop, or at least not too much out of the way, I knew that eventually I would get to share it. Here it is:

The Raven on the left side just blows me away. It creates an awesome feeling of foreground, as if he was observing the rest of the picture with the viewer: a sort-of bio-mechanic landscape which deserves closer inspection.

On the opposite side of the mural we can see some type of serpentine creature, looking like an eel or a snake. I would almost describe it as “tribal or ethnic looking,” even though these words have no meaning whatsoever. It does not seem to follow the artistic style of local native cultures (nor does it have to), yet it recalls images of folk-art from somewhere around the world.

My favorite part of this whole mural, the one I think is absolutely amazing, is the middle part. This is where the 3D effect comes in. Very careful observers may have noticed the small staircase in front of the back door of the studio. This has been integrated into the picture with such skill, that you could spend hours looking at it from various angles, always getting a different image. But before you keep scrolling back and forth, here is a view of the stairs:

This is not the first time that I’ve come across such artistic play, where the muralist took up the uneven surface into the overall wall painting. You may remember my post about the Warrior Princess in Mazunte. The difference is, that using a human face ultimately gives us the notion of a “perfect angle” where all parts align. I know, I almost fell down the cliffs trying to find it. Since the mural on Lyrics Studio is very abstract, you could look at it from any angle, and the lines would come together in different ways, all seemingly perfect, though always unique.