Mr Merida

4 meter x 4 meter
Spray paint on wall
Rotterdam, NL
Tymon de Laat 2015

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My first portrait mural, made on the corner of the Witte de Withstraat in my hometown Rotterdam.
Based on a photo taken in Merida Mexico.

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28 november 2015

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Netherlands portfolio Spray paint Wall

De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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