BDO New York wanted a mural for the cafe of their new Midtown offices that reflected their culture and values, so they commissioned a site-specific work of art by a team of Creative Art Works Youth Apprentices. The cafe is in the “Parks Neighborhood” of the 39th floor, and the theme for this neighborhood is “Thrive Together,” so the mural design features a diversity of lush vegetation found in local parks. Flora includes flowering dogwoods, may apple, butterfly weed, honey locust, red oak, skunk cabbage, and stag horn sumac. A dragonfly and a red-spotted purple admiral butterfly fly among the flowers. The overall effect is to draw the viewer’s gaze up through the verdant canopy towards the sky.
