Flowers (2000 mural by Paul Santoleri and Geraldine Stanley-Hegne)

Flowers by artists Paul Santoleri and Geraldine Stanley-Hegne is painted on the John B. Stetson Charter School located in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A vibrant square of color on a large brick building. Santoleri and Stanley-Hegne’s mural brings the beauty of flowers to hundreds of students and passersby every day. Murals like this serve to not only connect the city back to the natural world so much concrete covers up, but it also creates interest in science through its representation of botanical drawings reminiscent of the 19th century.