Missouri - The State of Brother for Brother

UPDATE: Merferd vs. The Evil One

It seems that Merferd has a way of making evil uncomfortable. 
Merferd found a home on the flood wall at PaintLouis.  Soon after, he was painted over with a Frankenstein like thing we refer to as The Evil One.
Was Merferd mad? Nope, but he made his feelings known.

​Merferd FTW!

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Paintlouis is an event which draws artists to a two mile long flood wall is where graffiti and mural painters from across the US and world descend once a year to repaint.

It was a productive day painting a big Merferd on the flood wall in downtown St. Louis. 

Phil Jarvis, internationally renowned mural artist was given a designated spot at the beginning of the long wall next to St Louis' own popular artist, Phil Berwick. Two Phils.

​Phil Jarvis was commissioned by St. Louis Magazine for its cover. The other artists contributed their skills and creativity gratis.

​Phil Jarvis paints his signature beard in every single commission mural he paints. 
So the other Phil ... Merferd's Phil just had to have Merferd's signature beard pointing of course at the other Phil's

Take a close look. Not only is Phil Jarvis' beard in his St Louis Magazine front cover mural, but his entire silhouette of his face is!  At least from the nose on down.

​​The other Phil (Phil Jarvis) finished and packed up. Merferd's Phil lingered on even after the sun, not wanting to miss a single fan. In this case three of them.

​One of the Paint St. Louis 2017 organizers wanted Merferd on end caps, and he gladly obliged.

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But, everything changes.

​The very next weekend while Merferds's Phil was bringing Merferds to Paint Memphis, a fan caught this happening and sent a photo to Phil and Merferd.

Phil was in Tennessee at the time. He was tempted to go down to the tagger's tattoo studio (which happened to be in Nashville) and paint a Merferd on his door.  Phil and Merferd thought better of that. They have other plans instead ...

​Phil was glad the "Missouri, State of Brother for Brother" tag was still there, untouched from three years ago before Merferd went viral in St Louis. Also, "The Man Behind the Merferd" documentary information remained.

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