New Pothole Art by Jim Bachor

WORDS Mary Garner

Chicago-based mosaic artist Jim Bachor, who we previously featured here, continues to find creative ways to cover up unsightly potholes in US cities.

His pieces are an attempt to both beautify and draw local government attention to infrastructure upkeep. Recently, he’s taken his stylings to New York in a new series called Vermin of New York. He covered potholes in Brooklyn and Manhattan with mosaics of a pigeon, a dead rat, a cockroach, flowers and a portrait of the US president Donald Trump.

“A lot of my work is pretty upbeat, so I try and be a little unpredictable to keep people off balance — hence the vermin,” Jim told Colossal.

Days after installation, the Donald Trump piece, along with the flowers and cockroach, were removed by the city, something that was never done with the 67 other installations he’s created over the past five years, which you can browse examples of above.

For more information and to view more of Jim’s work, visit bachor.com.

(h/t) thisiscolossal.com