Herakut Murals | Kentucky Life | KET

Amid the everyday street scene in downtown Lexington, two giant murals catch your attention. In each, a young girl in an elaborate fantasy scene looks out with soulful eyes. She has a story to tell, and the tale comes from the minds of the German artist duo known as "Herakut."
"Hera" is Jasmin Siddiqui and "Akut" is Falk Lehmann. Together they create large-scale graffiti-based street art on buildings throughout the world. The two murals that Herakut created here are part of their newest venture, the Giant Storybook.
The two have been collaborating since 2004. They came to Kentucky at the invitation of Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde, artists and professors at Transylvania University. Lexington has the first two "pages" of this Giant Storybook. The central character is a little girl named Lily, but the story is being revealed one building and city at a time.
"Lily and the Silly Monkeys," at the corner of Market and Short, is visible from Cheapside Park and features a "horse" fly and an iguana as well as Lily and the primates. "The Little Giants and the Goddess of Dreams," at North Limestone and East Sixth Street, features a girl holding two tiny children with the quote, "It was a beautiful moment when the little giant woke up to see where dreams come from."
Other pages for the Giant Storybook are in Eresing, Germany; Montreal; Toronto; Rochester, New York; San Francisco; and Miami.