Completed in 2019, Rubble Without a Cause adds another masterpiece to the lengthy list of Blue Sky’s Columbia collection. Learning the lesson, “never paint a mural in a place nobody ever sees it,” after completing Five Points in 1948, there’s no missing the eye-catching addition on Blossom Street.

What was once a wall with grimly painted bricks in front of which cars and dumpsters parked in the back parking lot of Groucho’s Deli, located at 611 Harden Street . Blue Sky scoped out walls to paint in Five Points when the district’s business association approached him with the idea for a new piece of public art.

The finished mural depicts the steel chain foregrounding its crumbling anchor. It resembles his “Neverbust” sculpture on Main Street.

Blue Sky, who used to have a gallery in Five Points, is known as the creator of the giant fire hydrant sculpture “Busted Plug” (formerly located on Taylor Street) and the “Tunnelvision” mural as well as other public works in Columbia.

Artist: Blue Sky

Type: Mural

Unveiled 2019

Source: One Columbia