Pointless Prize: Public Art Finder
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My bike leaning against the 245-foot mural at the entrance to the Mount Vernon Trail from the (recently revamped in 2024) Crystal City Water Park, which highlights the area’s connectivity, according to the artist J.D. Deardourff.“The shapes of the map flow with the curvy shape of the wall, with a shifting gradient of greens and blues to illustrate the Mount Vernon Trail as a connection between an urban environment, land and the Potomac River.”
Deardourff drew inspiration from a vintage map of the area, emulating the neighborhood’s topographical features in 1910 to convey its transformation.
“With a wall like this,” Deardourff said, “you want the design to be simple enough to pop if you’re speeding by on a bike, but have enough detail to reward close inspection and multiple viewings.”
I find that it “pops” most when the late afternoon, low angle sun light hits the wall just before sunsets behind the buildings across the street.
3/19/2025 had to do my neighborhood’s identifying art for the last day! On Kennedy st NW and Georgia ave
My final and perhaps favorite because it was hiding in plain sight “bike art” on the staircase leading up from Gypsy Sally’s on the CCT up to the C&O canal towpath just below Francis Scott Key park and bridge over the Potomac River, Washington DC
3/19 – Gathersburg-themed mural on building wall on Frederick Ave by local street artist @nether410 from Baltimore
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