Simple and straightforward: we wanted the huge letters to dissolve into a pattern of black and white stripes and only be recognizable as text at second glance.

Each arch under the train bridges has an area of around 150 square meters and the vaults are over four and a half meters high.

For us, that meant: up on the rolling scaffold, down off the rolling scaffold, a whole week long.

Painting and smiling at a height of four meters.

We painted the letters with a paint roller and only touched up the edges in a few places—careful not to smooth them out too much.

What looked simple in the sketches turned out to be a challenge during implementation. We thought we would get the design on the wall in two or three days, but in the end it took a full week.

Folded into the corner of the wall of the S-Bahn arch, the two-dimensional letters formed a walk-in space. This space was planned as a temporary installation from the outset and the museum has since painted over the BERLIN mural. But it remains visible as a ghost image.