The American artist based in Detroit is mainly known for an ongoing series of sketchbooks and photos documenting his travels within the United States. The original painting of this edition takes part in a series based on images of things Pat Perry saw for sale online. As he explains, “Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are websites meant to serve a strictly practical purpose, but they are also repositories for strangeness. This series of paintings, based on images appropriated from these websites, muses on how real life is refracted when strangers use their phone cameras and social media accounts to sell things to each other online.”

Emerging from Shepard Fairey’s ongoing use of universal symbols to communicate ideas of peace and social harmony, Geometric Dove (Black) places the familiar image of the dove within a carefully balanced geometric composition. Rather than confrontation, the work adopts a quieter visual language, using symmetry, colour, and repetition to evoke a sense of order and coexistence. 

Characteristic of Fairey’s practice, immediately recognisable imagery is distilled through the bold graphic language that has shaped his work across posters, prints, and public space. Here, geometry becomes more than a formal device, creating a structure within which difference can exist in balance. Translated onto tile, the composition acquires an additional sense of permanence and material presence, reinforcing the work’s simple but enduring proposition: the pursuit of peace and harmony.