13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru

Xomatok, an artist from Peru, together with a bunch of citizens of Lima, decided to paint prismatic patterns on steps going up the hills of the city. They are influenced by the blankets hand-made by Andean craftsmen.
This is what the effects of their work look like.

You can clearly see them from afar

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

They climb up the hills like snakes

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

And they are all amazingly colorful

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

You can see them mainly in the poorer pars of the city

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

There is no way you will mistake them with anything else

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

Sometimes they look like a TV screen that needs more sharpness

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

Each pattern is influenced by traditional folk clothes

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

The colors are unbelievably juicy

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

This classic Andean pattern is their distinctive feature

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

Something rather modern

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

Compared to the grey buildings around them they look so radiant

13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok/instagram

If there are steps like that in your neighborhood, would you like them to be painted this way?

 

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