Josh Hall aka BAGHEAD and Brian Butler aka UPPERHAND are not your run of the mill Miami residents. BAGHEAD heavily influenced by skate culture and tattoo culture is an active artist, designer and muralist that has a reach well outside of his home town. UPPERHAND an unapologetic music fanatic that doesn’t play an instrument himself, has dedicated much of his artistic skills to giving back to the music community in the form of cover art, merchandising and his ‘SHOW DRAWN’ movement, which is the act of drawing at live music shows. Not to mention fine art, design and mural work as well.

Getting an upper hand on a mixed bag of images

Put the two together and invite them to POW! WOW! HAWAII 2020 and you have a recipe for some crazy creation. The final missing ingredients are some Montana GOLD cans and some acrylic paint and brushes. Add some magical Hawaiian sun and a scissor lift and the result is world standard street art.

The mural created by Hall and Butler was an impressive merge of creatures, symbols, and objects with their origins very definitely coming from the artist’s influences. However for the POW! WOW! 10th-anniversary festival the artwork also gave homage to images based around Hawaii and it’s culture. Animals (land and sea), spirits, symbology, and human figures. All in one beautiful mural made by two friends amongst new friends, a long way from home. Making a lot of progress with not much color variation, the artists created an engaging mural with a relatively light-on color palette. Take a look here for yourself.

work in progress