♪♪ -Mural Masters is an annual
street art and graffiti event here in Burien, Washington.
This is the seventh year of it.
And we are back now after a five year break. [can rattles]
We have 15 to 20 artists painting different walls
around city of Burien and mostly down the alleyway
of 152nd Street between Fourth and Ambaum.
-We want to make pedestrian walkways more accessible.
We want people to be walking and feeling safe.
And so if you have a beautiful area
like a mural and people are taking pictures,
they're more likely to walk through
and eat at restaurants and shop at local stores and
just be in the neighborhood, use public transit.
And those are the things that I feel make a really
successful neighborhood. ♪♪
-We’re painting
a beautiful mural of the birth of a spirit.
So it's kind of emulating the center
source and us coming from the center
source outwards as separate spirits.
If you're really looking at it,
the center
portal source is really where everything
and all the energy emulates from and as we grow further,
we go further into the unknown.
Communication is a big part of this work
and I feel that this is the loudest way I can communicate.
So having a larger and larger
space to communicate this really is vital
to the work, to the life, to the message itself.
♪♪ -I grew up in Vietnam.
I lived right across the street
from a movie theater,
and I've always been visually stimulated.
I was asked by Sam Sneke,
a close friend of mine for 30 years now.
He called me up like, “Hey,
I heard you do murals, do you want to be a part of this Mural
Masters” like, “Yeah, I would love to it’s summertime,
it’s, you know, what a great time to be a part of something.”
♪♪ The mural tours now that are happening
around the country, around the world, probably.
And these mural events, you know, they're everywhere now.
And when we started it, there was only like three.
It’s value is, I think, adding energy to the streets.
You know,
having things for people to look at,
you know, bright images and things
like that, as opposed to, you know, gray brown, beige,
you know, types of walls.
I mean, that professional look is okay,
but it's okay to add some color.
I've always drawn
always drawn stuff that's from inside of me.
And I think that's inside of a lot of people.
-The Burien murals will remain up through summer 2025.
Location information is at muralmasters.org.
♪♪ Catch Art Zone Friday nights at eight
and any time online at seattlechannel.org/artzone.