Die Strassenmaler is a Swiss-German (German language) documentary done a couple of years after the National Geographic. It shows some of the development of pavement art in those years. I created the work below, entitled “Reflections” was done for the documentary, and the artistic process is shown in the video.

The documentary also shows the lifestyle of the pavement artists while the art form was just starting to become popular and more respected. It was still very much a folk art in Italy. The costumed figures were a group of young people specialized in reconstructing the costumes of the great Gonzaga family that ruled Mantua as dukes for several centuries. The video also shows pastel making and other techniques that I was introducing to pavement art.