Flowers

Look at the bottom, not the top. Among all the flowers stands an ordinary chair with paint pots in front of it. That is where the work happened. The wall is so full you almost forget: this was made by hand, by someone who now and then had to sit down. Yellow, red and pink, packed so tightly that the branches nearly disappear. This part of For the Love of God, the mural by Francis Sling at Landhuis Rondeklip, Curaçao, was photographed on 13 February 2025, late in the afternoon. Francis Sling is a painter, muralist, poet and musician, and he has painted many walls on Curaçao before. But this full, you rarely see: a wall that looks as if it started blooming by itself.