Words Travel Fast, Downtown Miami Murals

Words Travel Fast was a public art project by PRIMARY Projects that explored the relationship between text, visual art, and geography. Artists were challenged to create murals using only words: twelve words or fewer, two colors, bold typography, and no references to religion or politics.

I had completely forgotten these photographs until I found them on an old iPhone. What I remembered immediately were the messages. They had a way of making you stop in the middle of a walk through Downtown and think for a moment before moving on.

 
“We live in a rainbow of chaos” Five & Kemo | Photo By Nadia Bouzid

“We live in a rainbow of chaos” Five & Kemo | Photo By Nadia Bouzid

“I’ll see it when I believe it” Kenton Parker | Photo By Nadia Bouzid

“I’ll see it when I believe it” Kenton Parker | Photo By Nadia Bouzid

- “At the first whisper of orange blossoms she entirely lost her mind” Christina Pettersson | Photo by Nadia Bouzid

- “At the first whisper of orange blossoms she entirely lost her mind” Christina Pettersson | Photo by Nadia Bouzid

"Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy” TYPOE | Photo by Nadia Bouzid 2015

"Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy” TYPOE | Photo by Nadia Bouzid 2015

 

- “We live in a rainbow of chaos” Five & Kemo

- “I’ll see it when I believe it” Kenton Parker

- “At the first whisper of orange blossoms she entirely lost her mind” Christina Pettersson

- "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy” TYPOE