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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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With Chinatown mural, artist Ocean Muerto says he’s playing with the idea of ‘dust to dust’

A mural painted by the artist Ocean Muerto in August near 18th and Clark streets. (Robert Herguth / Sun-Times)

A butterfly seems to rest on a hand in the mural near 18th and Clark streets, the fingers stretching toward a cluster of mushrooms, Chinese lettering and roots — or maybe they’re they strands of human tissue — that appear to flow from the earth to a decaying arm.

So there’s a darker vibe and also something lighter there as well.

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