Sunday 19

(2/12/2023, #19)

Some weekends are rainy, some are gloriously crisp and sunny - this Saturday and Sunday were nice. Plenty of sunshine, cyclists, pedestrians - you name it, everyone was out.

My intrepid companion and I started out where we left off last time with our Month of Sundays project. We were working east on Commerce, and had detoured south on Crowdus to look at the murals at St. Pete's Dancing Marlin.

At this intersection, at Crowdus and Clover, every point of the compass has a view. I mentioned before that Clover Street here is the midpoint of Blues Alley, which we'll cover in a future post. Across Clover to the south is the loading dock for The Studio at the Factory and this intersection is often crowded on weekends with trucks carrying concert equipment for the shows.

This Saturday morning when we started we found Tim and his brother from Sycamore, Illinois who had hauled show equipment in and were looking for a good breakfast. We had a nice chat, pointed them to the AllGood Cafe, and started back toward Commerce. Here's what we saw first.

Back on Commerce, we continued east where dueling crabs by Isaac Davies (@izkart) and Jerod Davies (@dtoxart) dominate the parking lot for The Crab Station oyster bar.

Walking further down to Malcolm X, we passed Federales Bar with "The Truth" by Jason Botkin (@robotkin) on the corner of Commerce and Malcolm X.

Across Malcolm X is Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken which was installed into the mural "Deep Ellum TX" created by Infinity Crew (see the original here) and two Bruja murals advertising Shiner TexHex beer from the Infinite Crew.

Keep going down Commerce and around the corner on the south is this long beauty by Sergio Garcia, Tex Moton, Jose May (Joe Skilz), and IC Murals.

Across the street is this bird by James Bullough.

Further down Commerce is a parking lot at Walton Street with "Dream" by Jeremy Biggers (Stem and Thorn, link) and an overhead door by Tony Bones. "Dream" replaced a mural by Tyson Summers (see photo on far right).

And around the corner is Flea Style, with art in the Flea Style parking lot. The "Supercharge your confidence" flowers are by @cheracreative , "good things happen here" and "Peace on Earth" are by Grace Dille. Instagrammable all, especially if you catch them in the sun.

There's a ton of mosaic tile art across the street by Fenn.

This mosaic facade by Vicky Sheets covers the front of Knoxtile.

We are at Commerce and Hall and there's more. We are going to start seeing murals that we've noted before, such as this impressionist work around the corner from Knoxtile.

These two small works by Mari Pohlman are on the south side of the street between Hall and Murray at Energy Gardens Terrariums.

Moving on to Commerce and Murray, we see these four that we've seen before, on the east wall of the Deep Ellum Art Company.

Across the street and around the corner we saw these in October.

Keep moving east! You'll cross Trunk Avenue - look to the right and these murals line the wall.

We are almost at the end of Commerce Street in Deep Ellum. On the left at Exposition is a 7-11 that has this loooong wide piece that marks the official end of Commerce Street. This is where we started our journey over six months ago.

We are going to go down Clover Street (Blues Alley) in our next post. Stay tuned!

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