Now that we have had our longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and Solstice has stirred libidos, plunging us into midnight runs through abandoned lots and local parks and naked splashing in the fountains, we leave our cities for something more botanical. It’s instructive that despite the many wonders of the built urban environment, most city dwellers find life incomplete without grasses, flowers, leaves, honey bees.

Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Street Artist Gola Hundun is fully immersed in nature with this 6 story open atrium he has just painted in the Parisian Hôtel Le Belleval and it may set your senses buzzing as well. Carefully planned and executed according to an order that mimics the natural one, these botanicals spring from the Gola well, which runs quite deep, if you are asking.
Not quite outside, and not quite in, the fresco mimics the evolution of previous works by this Italian-born Ambassador for Earth and All Her Creatures and Energies. Hopefully the hotel’s patrons will look up from their screens and glasses of Rosé to see the birds and bees, because without them we are nothing.
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
Gola Hundun. “The Bee”. Paris, France. June 2018. (photo © Lucas Barioulette)
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