Melissa Holloway

Series 01

Beauty Inside the Beast

What the city leaves behind — hand-painted walls, worn porches, chairs nobody came back for.

Weathered two-storey clapboard house in black and white — Still standing

Mural of a man in beaded necklaces holding a stack of hundred dollar bills to his ear — Hundreds

Historic Findlay Market sign lit up at night above the market pavilion — Findlay after close

Large orange and blue Freak Forever graffiti piece under a stone bridge at night — Freak forever

Blossoming tree lit gold at night beneath a mackerel sky of clouds — Lit from below

Hand-painted Homies Only sign on a wall — Homies only

Mural of a vintage payphone on a blue building at dusk — Last call

Large colourful graffiti mural — Wall work

Abandoned chair on a sidewalk — Nobody came back

Blue street signs for 13th Street and Vine Street at night — 13th & Vine

Street signs against the sky — 14th & Vine

Lit fountain at night — The fountain

Teal and blue painted brick row houses at sunset — Painted row

Mural of a cartoon baseball face on a brick wall — Big face

Colourful flower mural on a black and white street corner — Bloom on brick

Sunburst over a wet street under a dramatic sky — After the storm

Empty bench in golden rain — Sit it out

Green highway exit signs against an orange sky — Exit only

City skyline silhouetted against a burning orange sunrise — City on fire

Enormous mural of a rider on horseback lit gold against a night sky — Night rider

Perforated cube sculpture glowing orange and casting lace shadows on the pavement — Lantern box

A face emerging from chipped plaster on a brick wall under a streetlight — Face in the plaster

Vintage neon Tower Furniture sign on a grey winter sky — Tower furniture

Illuminated oval sign of red wine pouring into a glass at night — One more pour

Turreted stone mansion glowing white against a dark stormy sky — The house on the hill

Ferris wheel lit in every colour against a black night sky — Expo wheel

Black grand piano on a checkerboard marble floor — Lobby piano

Ornate brass U.S. Mail letter box in a marble lobby — Letters

Towering black and white mural of two figures embracing on a brick wall — Hold on

Old brick Baptist church from 1866 with a bright blue rose window — Baptisten Kirche, 1866

Derelict brick building covered in graffiti under a grey sky — Left to the writers

Vivid mural of two figures with green and magenta hair against a blue brick wall — Two of them

Pale blue brick facade with a red door and two red hydrants — 3235 Colerain

Red freight boxcar covered in blue and white graffiti — Rolling canvas

No Outlet sign surrounded by autumn leaves — No outlet

Derelict five-storey brick factory with boarded windows and iron fire escapes at dusk — The old works

Red brick building seen through a chain link fence in near monochrome — Through the fence

Bright graffiti piece with a masked green-hooded figure and flames on a white brick wall — Masked and burning

Keep looking

Over the River Flowers in the Dark Outside the City