The wide lawn of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has taken on a riot of rainbow hues in a geometric mural designed by artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer.

The installation, titled Equilateral Network, was designed to create spaces for social distancing with its triangular grid. Unpainted sections of lawn provide walking paths, and equilateral triangles lined in pink define spaces for people to sit, separated by six feet of distance.

Born and raised in the heartland of the American midwest, Thalhammer moved east to Washington DC in her early twenties with an intent to shake things up through her art. Today, armed with creativity and color, she challenges the systems of power long steeped in patriarchy and racism by infusing rainbows and portraits of empowered women onto the streetscape of our Nation’s Capital, and in doing so, makes socio-political statements with her artwork, meeting each viewer with a high vibration energy.

D.C.’s Black Lives Matter mural made headlines around the nation. Now, the same artists are painting 51 more murals around the city in a push for statehood.

After graduating from college in 2003, Thalhammer moved to Washington, D.C. Five years later she traded in her canvases for the public art spaces of the city, focusing her new works on uplifting women. A decade later, her murals continue to take on important issues and engage the surrounding communities.