Kosa Rara mural by Pin8 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts USA - Murals on Waymarking.com

Along the southwest side of a three story brick building, a wild and colorful mural was painted in the summer of 2016 by Pin8 during his artist-in-residence time at COSA RARA of Turners Falls, Massachusetts. He painted a boar's head, an electric pineapple, and a woman cradling three rabbits among the many elements.

There are basically two types of components to this mural in a wide alley: multi-colored dimensional subjects and single-color sketches. The former numbers roughly ten pieces, the latter are abundantly scattered around, on, or in the former.

The dominant forms, when viewed from left to right, are:

• A young woman in a hooded shawl with cat ears is portrayed from the waist up. Her flowing, yellow cloak has shades of purple highlights and long sleeves. There is a flaming heart amulet with an eye extending from her navel up to her neck, another amulet on her forehead of round and glowing gems, and a purple crescent on her left shoulder. The woman's arms are at her side, bent at the elbows, and cross her abdomen as she gently cradles three white rabbits. Overall, her image reaches from the ground up to about 15 feet high and spans ten feet wide from elbow to elbow.
• Three animal heads are painted with a technique like Pointillism, but with a multitude of short lines instead of dots. In the upper center is a deranged cat head and bottom center a bug-eyed dog head. The cat is swiping its right forepaw with sharp claws over an actual window and back down towards the dog. These animals share a color theme of yellow, red, and purple. They both have very large and pointy teeth.
• The left hand and wrist of a human in solid black with white contour lines is just to the right of the cat and dog heads. From ground level, the palm out appendage reaches about 10 feet up the wall.
• Half a dozen smaller items arch over the hand. Clockwise from the bottom left: a red devilish head with three eyes and pointed ears, a colorful tropical fish, half an avocado with its bulbous pit intact, a skull, another cat head - this one wearing a pink bandana over its mouth and nose and a green cross on its forehead, and a pineapple cut in half with a bolt of red lightening shooting between the segments.
• Finally, at the far right of the piece, the head of a wild boar is painted in the same style as the cat and dog, but mainly in orange with black, yellow, red, and a bit of purple. It also has large tusks and teeth.

Multifarious and quickly rendered sediment fills in the spaces around the more polished subjects. This fill consists of many animal heads, a fish skeleton, an angry arched-back cat on a skateboard, a dagger, a slice of pepperoni pizza, some crystals, and a happy blue bird perched on the woman's head fighting for the viewer's attention. "KOSA RARA" text is centered above the window. The artist signed the piece "SUPAY KOSA" at the bottom right.

From the Turners Falls RiverCulture Facebook page:

Turners Falls has a BEAUTIFUL new mural in town between 3rd and 4th street painted by Pin8, an Ecuadorian graphic artist who has just completed a three week artist-in-residence at COSA RARA, 111 Avenue A.

Artist Bio: Pin8 (pronounced pin-ocho, like the character Pinocchio) Muralist, freelance artist, tattooist. Member of the artivist collective Fenómenos. Pin8 has a solid academic training, with a degree in art from the Universidad Central del Ecuador and post-graduate studies at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Above all, he is a traveler. Specialist in unleashing playful visuals without pretension. Ironic, chaotic, and multifarious. Based sometimes in Quito, or in Baños, Ecuador, and sometimes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pin8 is a perpetual nomad, making an impression wherever he goes.

See more of the artist's work on his Instagram feed: pinosupay