mural, 221 sw 6th ave.

Mural at SW 6th & Pine, by Spencer Keeton Cunningham & Jaque Fragua.

Death Industry mural

The next mural up is this somewhat gory design on the back of a building at N. Flint & Tillamook, overlooking Interstate 5. Wiredforsound23 on Flickr calls it "Death Industry mural"; I don't know whether that's "official" or not, but I'm going with it for lack of a better name. In any case, it's by Spencer Keeton Cunningham, who also did the cool snake mural that wraps around a building at SE 11th & Stark.

Snake Mural, SE 11th

Here's a slideshow of the new snake mural on a building on SW 11th between Stark & Oak, near St. Francis Park, and next to the ADX building (which has a mural of its own). The snake was created by artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham for the 2014 Forest for the Trees mural festival.

Somehow I ended up without a photo of the head of the snake (on the first visit). I'm not really sure how I managed that. The artist's Tumblr has a few photos of him painting it, including one of the head. A post at the festival's Tumblr has more photos of it; apparently the mural wraps around three sides of the building, not the two that I thought, and the head is on the side I didn't realize was there. I also didn't realize it was a snake, since without the head it kind of looks like an abstract design, like the orange ADX mural next door. So I didn't realize I ought to be looking for the head of a snake. That sounds kind of dumb in retrospect, but it's the only excuse I've got.

Updated: I went back and got proper photos of the head of the snake. It just didn't seem right, otherwise.