Major praise deserves to go to Midtown Alliance for their latest public art collaboration with MARTA’s Midtown Station. The work is focused on a new mural, “Confluence: Burst Forth with A Terrific Noise,” created by Atlanta based artist Andrew Catanese.

The mural features Catanese’s signature style of brightly colored organic shapes that come together to form a storybook-like image of a nature-filled forest. Located along the southern entrance to the station, the mural reminds viewers of Atlanta’s moniker of being “a city in a forest” and gives viewers a whimsical connection to the natural world during an otherwise boring commute.

The installation was unveiled in late July and since then has majorly enhanced this transportation hub. Along with the mural there is new lighting and seating designed by Sylvatica Studio and constructed by MacroTek Services. Mounds of green astroturf are placed near the entrance, and they give commuters a beautiful and place to sit while waiting for the bus or train. Midtown Station, like many MARTA Stations, is a brutalist concrete slab that can often overwhelm and engulf the humans that shuffle through it daily.

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