First Contact

Artwork: Mural by SATR, First Contact, Moratalaz, Madrid, Spain, 2025

Another amazing mural by London-based artist SATR in Moratalaz, Madrid, Spain titled First Contact. SATR wrote this about what inspired its creation:

 "First Contact" shows a masked stray cat meeting a fox raising its paw, capturing a tentative moment in which two beings attempt to communicate by stepping into each other’s language — or what they imagine it to be.

Animals here stand for untamed emotions, while the mask suggests a second identity shaped through socialisation. To approach another often means reshaping that mask into something the other might recognise: an act that is both a reaching out and a misreading.

The surrounding grape vines extend and curl as they search for something to hold onto. They understand the world through touch rather than sight, mirroring a desire for connection that persists even without certainty or response.”