“Dream Big” or go home, champ. We don’t need any half-solutions today. This alligator with a hidden nature revealed in its’ shadow appears quite prepared to bellow and bite in Gainesville, the home for Florida Gators.

The Dutch pop-surrealist and anamorphic muralist Leon Keer is a master of optical illusion pictures. He imagined the scene here with a regional animal archetype and took it for a spin. The innovative artist always has hidden magic in his works, even if you don’t realize it the first time you look. So it was an original and slick decision by the team who invited him and his assistant Messina to paint this new 20’ x 7’ mural on a retail store.

Shout out to Iryna Kanishcheva, Deborah Butler, and Mary Reichardt for making this 3D mural by Leon Keer happen.

See other completed artworks by Monochronicle public art platform.