A towering new mural has sprouted on W45th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues in Hell’s Kitchen, transforming a once-muted wall into a vibrant statement on strength, belonging and sustainability. Commissioned by international nonprofit Yourban2030, the same group behind the Botanical Pulse mural in Hell’s Kitchen Park, the piece continues their campaign to merge public art with environmental innovation.

Created by Italian artist Tommaso Spazzini Villa, the mural — titled Strength — depicts a massive root system branching across the building’s façade. For Spazzini Villa, the roots are both metaphor and model. “Roots are not remnants of the past — they are architectures of belonging,” he explained. “They spread silently, not to cling, but to hold. In painting them, I’m not just invoking memory, but proposing a model: one where what’s hidden sustains what’s visible, and where strength begins in the unseen.”