Oshkosh, Wisconsin, sits on one of our founder’s maps for reasons that matter — hometown roots that informed how we approached the Greetings Tour mural here. The letter K nods to the lumber industry that built the town, and to OshKosh B’gosh, the brand that grew from it. Inside the H: the Public Library facade, flanked by the bronze lion sculptures that Italian artist Gaetano Trentanove cast decades ago, now painted into a present-day moment.
What makes this work is the split in discipline. Spray paint handled the backgrounds, all that aerosol energy and speed, while brush and photorealism filled the letter interiors with detail and precision. Not one or the other, but both on the same wall, each doing what it does best.