Festival de Graffiti de Valparaíso — Valparaíso, Chile

I painted this façade for the Festival de Graffiti de Valparaíso, a city where the walls already feel alive — layered, sun‑bleached, and carrying decades of color. Valparaíso doesn’t give you a blank surface; it gives you a conversation. This mural steps into that dialogue with a vertical portrait that watches the street the way the street watches back.
The face stretches upward, elongated and calm, framed by long black lines that anchor the composition. Below it, the textile‑coded geometry moves in rhythm — reds, greens, blues arranged like a pattern pulled from memory. The architecture becomes part of the piece: the protruding beams casting shadows, the narrow walkway shaping how the mural is seen, the modern panels beside it creating a contrast the work leans into rather than avoids.
The portrait isn’t literal. It’s a presence — a figure holding space on a façade that catches the coastal light differently every hour. The colors shift with the day, the shadows redraw the composition, and the mural becomes a living surface in a city built on movement.
Painting here was about tuning into the city’s existing frequency. Valparaíso is already an open‑air archive; this piece is my offering to that archive — bold enough to stand, quiet enough to belong.