Colossal HQ
Brooklyn, New York. 2018
A year after Colossal’s LA Headquarters finalized. Paul and Adrian came up with another great idea… lets paint this other building in Bushwick. Being a Brooklyn native this was an offer i could not refuse. The challenges these guys put me through are a thing of nightmares.
The theme for this mural was some sort The Little Mermaid meets Escape from New York. The building is located on Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile long tributary of the East River, is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City. And its disgusting.
“As though the ghastly smells emanating from the gasoline, benzene, and raw sewage weren’t enough, the creek was also contaminated with animal fat. One of the most notorious stenches that permeated the neighborhood in 1855 originated from the Peter Van Iderstine plant, which turned the entrails of butchered animals (including at least one ten-ton circus elephant) into animal feed, fertilizer, and glue.”