Created as part of the Seattle Design Festival by local artist Carolina Silva, Friends partnered with Space.City, Urban Artworks, and Downtown Seattle Association to commission Room for Change, a temporary mural on the Pike Street Hill Climb in 2016. The mural consists of enveloping the space that configures the concrete surfaces of the stairs, walls and benches with a repeated floral pattern.

Silva described her inspiration for the mural: “After visiting the site, I wanted to create a mural that would suggest the idea of containment, like a box or a room. This will be achieved through the wallpaper-like character of the mural, the dusty pink tone of the background and the fact that the mural is not a single panel, but covers different parts of the space, like folds. Repetitive patterns and hand-traced flowers are recurrent elements; they represent vulnerability and also chaos within harmony, or rather harmony within chaos. These are concepts that are not often explored in public space, but I think that in the subtlety of the motif, this piece has the capacity to create a moment of attention while being quiet; the capacity of being iconic while being soft; the capacity of being open while feeling intimate.”

Check out more of Carolina Silva’s work here