Adidas Pedestrian Bridge
Portland, Oregon
2021
Portland, Oregon
2021
Adidas Headquarters
North Greenly Ave
North Greenly Ave
Adidas in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates the strength, beauty, and inclusivity of sport.
Adidas in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates the strength, beauty, and inclusivity of sport.
Adidas in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates the strength, beauty, and inclusivity of sport.
All my work is a story about representing people of color unapologetically. It’s a fight, a struggle, a celebration, a dream - a form of protest. My murals portray women of color of all cultures and backgrounds, taking up as much space through their hair, features and movements. The colors are bright, unapologetically bold and in your face. I want to embrace multi-cultural and multi-layered women and show their power, as a form of resistance to the hegemonic and patriarchal systems of oppression that exist in this country and all over the world. I want to represent the individuals who don't fit in a box. Being a women of color, a queer women, a women, an immigrant, a survivor sculpted the creative today, it is the reason for my being and my work. I create for the underrepresented, I create for the minorities, I create for the ones who don't fit in, who are different.
A message of togetherness, we need to come together in this very awakening moment in our time to fight against a system that never wanted us to win. We need to focus on what communities should look like being self dependent, we need to choose community over individualism, it's not about working to gain things for ourselves anymore, now is the time to be selfless to care about the people around us that are hurting, to give back and to redistribute love.
We are the future.
Our voices and dreams are sacred.
We deserve to take up space.
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Photography Haley Busch and Brian Brose / Assistant Painters J&S Signs and Andrea Furtado
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Our voices and dreams are sacred.
We deserve to take up space.
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Photography Haley Busch and Brian Brose / Assistant Painters J&S Signs and Andrea Furtado
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Finished mural
August 18
2021
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August 18
2021
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Target Mural
Portland, Oregon
2022
Portland, Oregon
2022
Cedar Hills Location
NW Cornell Road
NW Cornell Road
Target in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates community.
Target in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates community.
A design that brings together movement, boldness, diversity, and power.
A mural that focuses on the idea of the growing and the building side of the community and is centered in story telling my perspective of Portland. The design of the abstract forms and shapes are made to work with the arches and curves of the Target logo. Portland is a place that feels different from the rest of the states, it feels more nurturing and giving to nature. A big inspiration is our diversity in landscapes and ecosystems from the ocean, valleys, prairies, vineyards, volcanos and mountains all located in one small part of the world. Here, the coffee culture is strong and engrained in the people, there is respect that goes towards the process of coffee and its' history. Powells' books sits proudly in the center of our city and is also an iconic place in Portland, giving us access to information and all our fantasies, a place to bring like-minded humans together. The bridges in Portland are quintessential, they sit fearlessly on the willamette river like our ancestors reminding us of our history as they connect two different worlds and bring unique architecture to the city.
These bridges make a big impact in our everyday lives as we cross the river from the West to the East. The city of roses we are called, a city that is still swallowed by nature wherever you go; not a city that has completely removed nature in its wake. The people here live for what nature has to give, we want to balance our place as humans by respecting and nurturing nature back to way it takes care of us. A cycle of love and care for each other and our unreplaceable mother nature.
Portland and Beaverton is a city that lacks culture and representation for creatives and Black, Brown and Indigenous people, this piece can bring in culture in a way that gives power to them, inspires them to keep creating, to come together, to feel seen and represented. The piece is strong on representing people of color taking up space unapologetically through bold colors, strong forms, and a loud message.
Overall a design made to bring more color into the world, more free public art that represented togetherness and the strength of community in Portland.
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Photography Haley Busch, Ryan Warner and Yvanna Ramos / Assistant Painters Eskelin Beilharz and Lou Souag
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A mural that focuses on the idea of the growing and the building side of the community and is centered in story telling my perspective of Portland. The design of the abstract forms and shapes are made to work with the arches and curves of the Target logo. Portland is a place that feels different from the rest of the states, it feels more nurturing and giving to nature. A big inspiration is our diversity in landscapes and ecosystems from the ocean, valleys, prairies, vineyards, volcanos and mountains all located in one small part of the world. Here, the coffee culture is strong and engrained in the people, there is respect that goes towards the process of coffee and its' history. Powells' books sits proudly in the center of our city and is also an iconic place in Portland, giving us access to information and all our fantasies, a place to bring like-minded humans together. The bridges in Portland are quintessential, they sit fearlessly on the willamette river like our ancestors reminding us of our history as they connect two different worlds and bring unique architecture to the city.
These bridges make a big impact in our everyday lives as we cross the river from the West to the East. The city of roses we are called, a city that is still swallowed by nature wherever you go; not a city that has completely removed nature in its wake. The people here live for what nature has to give, we want to balance our place as humans by respecting and nurturing nature back to way it takes care of us. A cycle of love and care for each other and our unreplaceable mother nature.
Portland and Beaverton is a city that lacks culture and representation for creatives and Black, Brown and Indigenous people, this piece can bring in culture in a way that gives power to them, inspires them to keep creating, to come together, to feel seen and represented. The piece is strong on representing people of color taking up space unapologetically through bold colors, strong forms, and a loud message.
Overall a design made to bring more color into the world, more free public art that represented togetherness and the strength of community in Portland.
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Photography Haley Busch, Ryan Warner and Yvanna Ramos / Assistant Painters Eskelin Beilharz and Lou Souag
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Happy Lucky
Portland, Oregon
2022
Portland, Oregon
2022
Happy Lucky Creative Office
Southeast 7th and Oak Street
Southeast 7th and Oak Street
Happy Lucky in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that visualizes their mission and vision as a company.
Happy Lucky in collaboration with Salomée Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that visualizes their mission and vision as a company.
This design is made to reflect the purpose of community and care, the cycle of love and sharing between bodies in space. The two bodies are represented in similar, but unique positions as they water the Earth and nourish it with their love and strength. This water gives birth to a blooming flower which is abstracted to communicate the strength in coming together to heal and celebrate. The natural elements now are able to also give back to the people and continue this beautiful cycle of love and power. Healing and love are revolutionary acts that have the power to change the world.
The design of the flower is inspired by my own background, as it merges North African and South American designs and forms. The mural is a combination of cultures and messaging that are all rooted in the idea of “Together We Rise.”
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Photography Salomée Souag /
Assistant painter Lou Souag
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The design of the flower is inspired by my own background, as it merges North African and South American designs and forms. The mural is a combination of cultures and messaging that are all rooted in the idea of “Together We Rise.”
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Photography Salomée Souag /
Assistant painter Lou Souag
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Stronger Together
Gresham, Oregon
2020
Gresham, Oregon
2020
Living School of Art
Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom
Collaborative mural with the youth part of Living School of Art, which is a program in Gresham oregon providing kids with the tools to be creative and express themselves freely.
Collaborative mural with the youth part of Living School of Art, which is a program in Gresham oregon providing kids with the tools to be creative and express themselves freely.
Mural design made in collaboration with the kids of the Living School of Art. They expressed they wanted to continue my message of community and togetherness and include plants and foliage from their community garden and home they had grown themselves and with their families. This mural lives within their neighborhood and is a center of play and inspiration. "Feels like looking at the sun, a sun looking at me from my window" one of the youth mentioned to me which warmed my heart deeply. My job as an artist is to bring home to youth and communities in need of it.
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Photography Haley Busch / Assistant Painters Living School of Art kids and mentors
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Finished mural
September 20
2021
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Hey Love
Portland, Oregon
2021
Portland, Oregon
2021
The Next Jupiter Hotel
North East Burnside
North East Burnside
A mural created in collaboration with Jupiter Next Hotel and Color Outside the Lines to focus on community and the celebration of our connection to nature.
A mural created in collaboration with Jupiter Next Hotel and Color Outside the Lines to focus on community and the celebration of our connection to nature.
Painted in Collaboration with Color Outside the Lines and NAYA Portland.
A mural that speaks to togetherness, bodies in movement sharing and balanced on each other expressing the spirit of community, care, and love. These bodies are also sharing their food and water to translate the message of unity even further. When we choose to care for outside of ourselves and our world, we open ourselves up to shared knowledge, resources, and guidance. We can break barriers and boundaries society has set up for us, the false dream of everyone fending for themselves and climbing their way to an empty top. We can achieve so much more surrounded by true community.
Together we rise.
Together we fight back.
Together we overcome.
Together we rise.
Together we fight back.
Together we overcome.
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Photography Ryan Warner and Salomée Souag / Assistant Painers Naya, Color Outside the Lines kids and mentors
