# @crisbarbarino on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYzVl4YkboC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66229304-crisbarbarino-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-26T12:38:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cris Barbarino © (@crisbarbarino) — https://gondola.cc/crisbarbarino

## Caption

I spent the weekend reading St. Pete.
Not the map. The walls.

I took the mural and graffiti tour with startrolley , guided by owner Daniel Wood. British, shaped by years in Los Angeles, one of the people who brought graffiti culture and teaching to this city. We talked design the way only someone fluent in both European craft and American street culture can.

This is a city that turns walls into voices. Nearly 200 SHINE shineonstpete murals since 2015. We even met Justin, who writes love messages on the sidewalks in colored chalk. Art here is not decoration. It is how St. Pete tells the truth about itself.

I photograph art because art is identity made visible. 25 years in graphic design and visual communication, and my real work became something deeper: helping people and brands uncover their true identity, from coaching through to design.
Cities, like people, have an identity. You just have to know how to read it.

I am Italian, now building my life and my work here in Florida. If you create in art, branding or design in St. Pete, I would love to connect.

This city understands what I do.
stpetefl, you are doing something right. ✨ 

stpeteartsalliance 
stpeterising 
stpetechamber 
the_one_of_many_ 
whitneyholbourn 

#StPete #FloridaArtist #branding #StPeteRising

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stpeterising, branding, stpete, floridaartist

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