Bright Blue Doors Edit
Lisbon Street Art Features Indigo Paint and Portuguese Poetry

An electric blue wave filled with one-sentence poetry has embraced the cement-closed doors of abandoned houses right in the center of Lisbon. The project was born from the hands of da onda magnética, also known as [dom], a collective that is dedicated to public art and urban activism, always with a positive and constructive approach. And poetic, too.

[dom] is formed by the Catalonian Blai Mesa and the Brazilian Verônica Volpato, and their headquarters is in Barcelona. This project also featured the work of another street artist, Eko Five from Spain.

The project is meant to turn degraded and abandoned buildings in Lisbon into more beautiful and reflection-driven spots in the city. They used a similar blue to Yves Klein’s created blue (IKBlue), an indigo ultramar blue that the referred artist associated to the concepts of freedom, representation and personal expression. The doors have inscribed quotes from the poems of one of the most recognized Portuguese poets, Fernando Pessoa, such as “People are us,” or “Unfinished Infinit.”