131The Pizza Sunrise
Pizza-sun mural by Skcoobaveli Trevino (@skcoobaveli), 2022 · signed on the wall with his handle and his own #doothedoo tag · commissioned by Slow Rise on the Brazos, N Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, and in place by the shop’s opening that April · the salvaged water wheel by the door carries no maker’s markMURAL
A sun rising over blue waves — except the sun is a slice of pizza. This town has a genre now.
On the side of Slow Rise on North MLK, the sun is coming up over rolling blue waves, throwing warm light across the water — and the sun is a slice of pizza. Crust out, point down... point up? Point skyward. Pepperoni gleaming. Painted completely straight, no wink, no caption.
Regulars of this trail will recognize the move: across town on Cobbs Drive, a doughnut shop has been running the same bit since 2016, with a sprinkled doughnut rising over painted mountains — that's stop 128. Which means Waco now has a genre: local food, depicted as the sun, treated with total sincerity. Two examples make a genre if both of them commit. By the front door, an old wooden water wheel leans against the wall — weathered paddles, actual age, no explanation offered — a piece of found sculpture guarding a painting of carbohydrate dawn.
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