Client: Mural Arts, Better Bike Share & City of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States
Completion date: 2016
Artwork budget: $100,000
Project Team
Public Art Agent
Better Bike Share, Indego Bikes
Better Bike Share
Artist
Candy Coated
candycoated.org
Overview
Pedal Powering
Bikes are symbols freedom, independence, progress, and forward movement. In dreams and in this colorful mural, bicycles are symbolic of the self. In Pedal Powering, bikes of many design styles ride together towards the sunrise into a beautiful new day dawning, a day full of vibrant color, faceted gemstone wheels of fortune in amethyst and citrine, flourishing leaves, red hearts, and monarch butterflies. These vibrant images flow together, moving towards a progressive and prospering pedal-powered future.