Cita Sadeli aims to keep stories of people of color in Washington, DC, alive in her massive street murals.
Cita Sadeli saw the start of the pandemic from a different angle than most: standing on an articulated lift, hovering 120 feet above street level. She spent much of early March 2020 painting a mural on the exterior of Hotel Xena in downtown Washington, DC, watching from above as the coronavirus outbreak slowly caught the city in its grip.
The experience encapsulates much of what is unique about street art and working on a large mural, which can be dangerous and inebriating at the same time -- particularly in a place like DC. "In my teens, I started tagging here and there in the streets and then finally linked up with some expats from the Bronx who had moved down to the area and who taught me more about the culture, and it just stuck. I feel like it's still part of my work, although I'm not out there tagging and bombing all the time," she said. A tag is the simplest form of graffiti -- an artist's stylized signature -- and bombing means saturating an area, with tags or"throwies" .
"She Smiles 100 Suns" , a mural on Sonnie's Groceries in Kennedy Street, representing youth and strength.Although the designs are carefully planned rather than improvised, the artistic process is influenced by the surrounding environment and that can seep into the work, Sadeli said.
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