Before

A place nobody looks at twice. A faded tennis court, a basketball board on the back wall, a stripe of green paint that gave up long ago. Every mural starts like this: as a wall you do not see. On this wall Francis Sling painted For the Love of God from 2024 to 2026, his largest mural so far, around the sports court at Landhuis Rondeklip, Curaçao. The work is about the moment love created everything, and so it begins here, with almost nothing. Look at the basketball board. It was never taken down. On the finished wall it is still there, right in the middle of the flowers.