27The Wall That Compliments You
“You Look Nice Today Wacotown” by Binty Bint, 2014 · painted on a trip to Texas by the British artist · unsigned, and identified by Creative Waco’s public art map · at 115 N 7th Street, on the parking-lot side facing Washington AvenueMURAL
Two round pink creatures and one sentence whose entire job is to be kind to strangers.
On a plain wall facing a plain parking lot off Austin Avenue, two round pink creatures — one bashful, one delighted, both wearing excellent little boots — deliver the whole message of the piece: you look Nice today Wacotown. That's it. That's the mural.
And honestly? It might be the most efficient piece of public art in the city. Murals elsewhere on this trail carry history, grief, scripture, civic pride. This wall carries a compliment. You come back to your car with your parking receipt and your errands, and a building tells you that you look nice, and you stand a little straighter for roughly a block and a half. It isn't signed, but Creative Waco's public art map knows: British artist Binty Bint painted it on a trip to Texas in 2014. More than a decade on, it's still working.
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