## Street art in a **world of its own** A guitarist checks his strings while a tiny reader settles into a hammock. These eight street artworks make room for private projects and unhurried pauses, from a book on the pavement to a view across the water. * * * ### 🎸 “U Chitarraru” — By Edoardo Ettorre in Rogliano, Italy 🇮🇹 A man checks the tuning pegs, with sheet music and a quill on the table beside him. Ettorre’s guitarist is Vincenzo Gallo, the Rogliano poet known as U Chitarraru. The mural is on Piazza Buffone, the town’s main square, CosenzaOk reported. **💡 Story Fact:** For Gulìa Urbana, Ettorre continued a scene painted by Salvatore Diana in 1991: the poet has finished a love letter and is getting ready to turn it into a song. More: **Saved You a Seat (9 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **Edoardo Ettorre on Instagram** * * * ### 📖 “Nadine and the Reading Palms” — By David Zinn in Laguna Beach, USA 🇺🇸 Nadine has a book, a hammock and no urgent plans. David Zinn made this scene in Laguna Beach, turning the joints between bricks into palm trunks and the grass above them into fronds. More: **Chalk Art by David Zinn** 🔗 Follow **David Zinn on Instagram** * * * ### ✂️ “Cut Through History” — By Fabian Bane Florin in Frauenfeld, Switzerland 🇨🇭 She holds the red fabric steady and works the scissors, while a real person below barely reaches the painted window. The folded cloth spills over the edge of Bane’s illusion. **💡 Building Fact:** The building was once a tailoring shop. Bane chose the seamstress for the first Street Art Festival Frauenfeld as a nod to that history. More: **Cut Through History by Fabian Bane Florin** 🔗 Follow **Fabian Bane Florin on Instagram** * * * ### ✏️ “Drawing a Sun” — By Cosimo Cheone Caiffa in Italy 🇮🇹 The face and hand are carefully rendered; the smiling sun is a much quicker job. Cheone lines up the pencil with the buildings across the road, making the whole street look like the man’s sketchbook. More: **Amazing 3D Murals by CHEONE! (24 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **Cosimo Cheone Caiffa on Instagram** * * * ### 🪑 “Boy on Chair” — By Ernest Zacharevic in George Town, Malaysia 🇲🇾 The boy is painted; the chair beneath his feet is real. On Cannon Street, he stretches toward a hole in the wall, just short of whatever has caught his attention. More: **Street Art by Ernest Zacharevic in Penang** 🔗 Follow **Ernest Zacharevic on Instagram** * * * ### ☕ “Drinking Coffee” — By Ksenia Kokel in Krasnodar, Russia 🇷🇺 An orange hat, a black cup and a glance to one side. Kokel gives this coffee break the whole wall; her process video dates it to Krasnodar, 2021. More: **Drinking Coffee by Ksenia Kokel** 🔗 Follow **Ksenia Kokel on Instagram** * * * ### 🖌️ “Roller Crosswalk” — By Cosimo Cheone Caiffa in Trezzano sul Naviglio, Italy 🇮🇹 Cheone’s painter has a job that extends beyond his wall. The roller meets a real crosswalk stripe, and an ordinary road marking looks like unfinished work. More: **Amazing 3D Murals by CHEONE! (24 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **Cosimo Cheone Caiffa on Instagram** * * * ### ⛵ “Midday” — By APHENOAH in Norderstedt, Germany 🇩🇪 Two men lean on a railing and look across the water, their backs turned to the street. APHENOAH brought Paul Kayser’s harbor scene to this tall facade for Walls of Vision. **💡 Painting Fact:** The duo moved the workers closer together and updated the skyline when adapting Kayser’s horizontal painting to the vertical wall. More: **Noon Hour by APHENOAH** 🔗 Follow **APHENOAH on Instagram**