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  "description": "These artists didn't just paint nature; they teamed up with it. From trees breaking through brick walls to faces carved in living wood, here are 11 times the wild world took over the canvas.\n\n🐿️ The Squirrel and the Robin — By Curtis Hylton in Oskarshamn, Sweden 🇸🇪\n\nA giant squirrel and robin take over the wall. This isn't just paint, it's a neighborhood forest.\n\nMore by Curtis Hylton: Parrot mural by Curtis Hylton for UPFEST\n\n💡 Nerd Fact: Curtis Hylton has said he tries to […]",
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    "Parrot mural by Curtis Hylton for UPFEST",
    "Curtis Hylton on Instagram",
    "Flower Mural by Krzysztof Bitka",
    "Flower mural by Mona Caron in Switzerland",
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    "cracks are basically accidental seedbeds",
    "The Art of Stones (12 Photos)",
    "Jon Foreman on Instagram",
    "Alter OS on Instagram",
    "Paddy Watts on Instagram",
    "Nature Is Everything! 18 Stunning Artworks",
    "Hannah Bullen-Ryner on Instagram",
    "6 Unbelievable Animal-Inspired Murals by Jack Lack",
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  "textContent": "## These artists didn’t just paint nature; they teamed up with it. From trees breaking through brick walls to faces carved in living wood, here are 11 times the wild world took over the canvas.\n\n* * *\n\n### 🐿️ The Squirrel and the Robin — By Curtis Hylton in Oskarshamn, Sweden 🇸🇪\n\nA giant squirrel and robin take over the wall. This isn’t just paint, it’s a neighborhood forest.\n\nMore by Curtis Hylton: **Parrot mural by Curtis Hylton for UPFEST**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Curtis Hylton has said he tries to keep the flora and fauna **native to the place he’s painting** , so walls like this read less like generic wildlife art and more like oversized biodiversity portraits.\n\n🔗 Follow **Curtis Hylton on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌾 Among the Grass — By Krzysztof Bitka in Szczecin, Poland 🇵🇱\n\nPlot twist: you are the bug. This giant meadow makes everyone walking past feel two inches tall.\n\nMore photos: **Flower Mural by Krzysztof Bitka**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** This mural’s original project title was **_Pielenie_** — “**weeding** ” in Polish — which gives the whole image a neat reversal: instead of humans controlling nature, the human figure is completely swallowed by it.\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌿 Gentiana Lutea — By Mona Caron in Le Locle, Switzerland 🇨🇭\n\nMona Caron has a gift for making plants feel monumental without losing their fragility. This mural climbs the building the way a real wildflower seems to claim impossible places.\n\nMore by Mona Caron: **Flower mural by Mona Caron in Switzerland**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact: I** n Le Locle, this plant is more than botanical decoration, **Exomusée notes** that great yellow gentian appears in the region’s **Sapin-style Art Nouveau** and even supplied stem wood for **hand-polishing fine watch parts**.\n\n🔗 Follow **Mona Caron on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🍃 Mud Maid — By Sue and Pete Hill in Cornwall, UK 🇬🇧\n\nMud Maid changes with the seasons, which is exactly why she is unforgettable. She is part sculpture, part garden, and part sleeping spirit of the woods.\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Mud Maid was originally supposed to have a **fish tail** , the **Hills first imagined her** as a sleeping mermaid, and her body was built over an armature made from **spare timber left from Heligan’s Jungle boardwalk**.\n\nAbout and more photos: **Mud Maid – Living sculpture by Sue and Pete Hill**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌼 Sidewalk Flower Experiment — By Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen\n\nNever underestimate the power of a seed. A rigid sidewalk suddenly turned into a wild ribbon of color.\n\nRead more about it **here!**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Pavement **cracks are basically accidental seedbeds** : tiny pockets of soil build up in them, and urban seed-spreading experiments have found that **cracks in asphalt can be some of the best places for flowers to establish**.\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌀 Portal — By Jon Foreman in Little Milford Woods, Wales 🇬🇧\n\nThis piece feels like an invitation to step through the woods differently. Foreman uses found leaves and shape alone to create something halfway between ritual and abstraction.\n\nMore by Jon Foreman: **The Art of Stones (12 Photos)**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Jon Foreman’s land art is intentionally **temporary** — made from natural materials and meant to be reclaimed by weather and time — so the disappearing is part of the artwork, not the failure of it.\n\n🔗 Follow **Jon Foreman on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌲 Forest Spirit — Artist Unknown\n\nA face emerging from wood is a simple idea on paper, but this one feels ancient and oddly gentle. It turns a tree surface into a character without losing its natural texture.\n\n* * *\n\n### 🌱 Beautiful Love — By Alter OS in Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽\n\nAlter OS uses the real tree as the emotional center of the piece, letting the children’s gestures do the rest. It is small, caring, and instantly human.\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Alter OS literally brands himself **“Ilustrador Monumental,”** and in interview he says he came up through **illegal late-1990s graffiti** , so this gentle scene feels like the polished, building-scale descendant of a much rougher street practice.\n\n🔗 Follow **Alter OS on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🦎 Brick Camo — By Paddy Watts\n\nThis one is all about observation. Paddy Watts makes the chameleon feel hidden and obvious at the same time, like the wall had been waiting to reveal it.\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** Real chameleons don’t change color mainly to match the wall. Research suggests their dramatic shifts evolved largely for **communication** , and the fast change itself comes from tuning lattices of tiny **guanine nanocrystals** in the skin.\n\n🔗 Follow **Paddy Watts on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### ❤️ Male Cardinal — By Hannah Bullen-Ryner\n\nThis piece shows how powerful ephemeral work can be. The careful arrangement of natural materials gives the cardinal texture, warmth, and a fleeting kind of beauty.\n\nMore by Hannah Bullen-Ryner: **Nature Is Everything! 18 Stunning Artworks**\n🔗 Follow **Hannah Bullen-Ryner on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n### 🦌 Shika — By Jack Lack in Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵\n\nShika has the stillness that good animal murals need. The deer feels calm, alert, and completely suited to a theme about quiet coexistence with the natural world.\n\nMore by Jack Lack: **6 Unbelievable Animal-Inspired Murals by Jack Lack**\n\n**💡 Nerd Fact:** The title matters here: **_shika_** means deer, and Jack Lack explains that in Japan deer are seen as **messengers from the spirit world** and a bridge between humans and nature. A belief with deep roots in places like Nara, where deer have been protected as divine envoys for **over 1,300 years**.\n\n🔗 Follow **Jack Lack on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n## Which one is your favorite?",
  "title": "When Nature Takes Over (11 Photos)"
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