Mantra’s Trompe L’oeil Murals Encase Enormous Butterflies in Vintage-Style Boxes

by David Solomonoff

Working with entomologists around the globe, the French street artist known as Mantra (previously) transforms brick facades and concrete walls into massive studies of local butterfly specimens. With framed outer edges that mimic a wooden box, the trompe l’oeil murals render the winged insects in detail

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