Most fading murals aren't lost.
The pigment is still there.
Paint is pigment held in a binder. Sun, rain, and time break down the binder first. The color looks gone. Usually, it isn't.
We stabilize and protect the existing work without repainting or changing a single brushstroke.
Anemos was founded by Jhonattan Arango, an artist whose 50'×12' mural sculpture The Offering entered the City of Dallas Permanent Public Art Collection in 2024, accepted into a program that requires a projected lifespan of 20 years or more.
Alongside his wife Samantha Arango, Jhonattan runs Art of Anón, a public mural practice that's taken him across more than a decade of painting in every kind of climate. Florida Keys humidity, Arizona desert heat, Midwestern winters. Good paintings on good walls were losing density, contrast, and color on a predictable timeline, even when everything had been done right. That pattern became a question, and the question became a methodology.
Anemos is that methodology, available to any city whether or not they're commissioning new work.
Treated works from the portfolio of Art of Anón
Paint is pigment held in a binder. When the binder fails, the color appears to fade, but the pigment is almost always still there. Understanding that changes everything about what's possible.
Cities commission murals. Artists paint them. The work goes up, celebrated and photographed, and then the system stops. No maintenance schedule, no inspection cycle, no one watching the paint. By the time a mural looks faded, most people assume it's gone. It usually isn't. But without a path forward, cities repaint, and the original work is lost.
In 2017, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida commissioned a legacy large-scale mural by a world-class artist, a six-figure investment in a work meant to last. Six years later, environmental damage had set in. The city reached out to the artist, who quoted a six-figure repair. Cost-prohibitive, they commissioned another artist and painted it over instead.
Years later, they had spent twice, for a replacement of something they never wanted to replace.
Preservation is priced like maintenance, not like a new commission. The community keeps what it paid for.
Every mural eventually needs attention. The only variable is when, and what's left to work with by then. The earlier a collection is assessed, the more options remain.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. Twenty minutes, no commitment, no prep required. We'll talk through what you've got and figure out together what makes sense.
Pick a time that works. We'll take it from there.
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