Walnut Street Bridge — Chester, PA

Widener University adjunct professor Sarah Heyward has created a plastic bag mural on the fencing of the pedestrian bridge which connects the university with the eastern side of the city.

“The bridge was interesting to me because it invites you to walk over,” Heyward told the schools’ online events publication,"Whats Up." “It serves as a metaphor to invite people to a space to congregate.”

Heyward chose to use single-use disposable plastic bags to create the mural to look at recycling and repurposing in the community. Over two days in December, Heyward and a number of students attached the donated bags to the fencing along the bridge.

"It looks awesome,” said Blair Nowacki, a sophomore nursing student who helped work on the project. “I love all the colors outside, and I’m happy to be part of it.”

The mural, included spirals shaped like flowers, the word "HI" and a number of abstract patterns. As traffic zoomed past below, the bags could be heard puffing in and out in its wake. The display will have a limited scope, as the bags deteriorate, Hayward will take them down but welcomes a future project on the bridge with other artists.