Christopher Revels
2017-2018
Working quickly and often in the early morning hours, artist Christopher Revels spent years chalking the sidewalks of Norfolk with his signature “Walking Houses.” The funny houses on stilts, walking over water, began as a way to spread ideas about society’s relationship with rising sea levels.
In 2017, Revels found a vacant wall in NEON to spread his message, next to a low-lying area of the neighborhood prone to flooding. His large-scale houses remained until the property owner commissioned a new mural, Great America XVII.
