A mural on a storm inlet drain featuring a mermaid in green/blue water surrounded by plastic trash.

Clara Carlson

Submitted 2023

"My final design depicts a mermaid swimming through various pieces of litter. The mermaid idea intrigues me because she is part fish, but also part human, and encourages the viewer to be more empathetic to connect to her as a fellow person rather than a wild animal. I really wanted to say, 'if the river were your home, would you want people polluting it"

City record

Object: #23
Status: CURRENT
Inlet: {D60A58B1-A963-4228-BC19-80765B33691E}
Location: 43.55371, -96.72680
Source: SF GIS layer 56

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Data & photos: City of Sioux Falls open data, CC-BY 4.0. Murals belong to their artists.
Made by: Cactus Wren and Claude Code, running Fable.
Method: Grilled into shape with Matt Pocock’s agent skills. Every default argued over, every modeling decision written down.