![Ra, M32 roundabout, Bristol, May 2024](https://scooj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_9745_edited.jpg)
Ra is an occasional and always very welcome visitor to Bristol, and his choice of wall to paint this beautiful piece is interesting. This wall used to be the home of a fabulous mural by Michele Curtis and the Paintsmiths celebrating Roy Hackett, a Jamaican, who arrived in Britain in 1952 and became co-founder of the Commonwealth Co-ordinated Committee (CCC) which was started 1962. Unfortunately the wall was re-rendered, painted and then subject to the tagging and bombing that walls like this are subject to. This piece by Ra is the best piece, in my opinion, to adorn the wall since.
![Ra, M32 roundabout, Bristol, May 2024](https://scooj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/img_9746_edited.jpg)
The stylised and beautifully decorated blue hand is in a pose with the middle finger and thumb touching is, I believe a mudra that represents energy and health, and it provides us with a feeling of balance. Certainly this piece feels in balance, with a complementary background and some flashes of light surrounding the hand. A wonderful spiritual piece which is beautifully executed.
![Michele Curtis and the Paintsmiths, Byron Street, Bristol, May 2019](https://scooj.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/garden-graff-0070-11-12-may-2019.jpg)
Indeed . . .
I was chatting with some guys who were working on a house opposite this and they all said they thought it was a lovely piece and I had to agree . . .
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