Graffiti of Chittenden County

I-89 crosses the Winooski River just before Exit 15 where it provides motorists with direct access to the towns of Winooski and Essex Junction. The concrete piers and abutments of the highway’s substructure have quietly served as a rotating gallery for graffiti writers as long as I can remember. Most of these shots are from 2007-2009, and taken with a 4-megapixel Canon PowerShot A520. Vermont actually does have some great graffiti art. Some of the names you’ll see here (Zeus, Chile) are spread around Burlington and still showing up as of 2026.

An antique by today’s standards, the PowerShot lacked a true panorama mode. Instead it had “stitch assist”. Being that a lot of the murals were quite large, it required taking multiple shots to get the full image. These would later have to be “stitched” together with desktop software. Using a crude Photoshop 7 plugin on my Sony Vaio, I would merge together 2, 3 or 4 images to create the full versions pictured here. The results were often mixed; you might notice a clear vertical or horizontal line leftover from the stitching process. I trashed a lot of the work, and in hindsight, it would have been interesting to keep some of my perceived failures. This process is of course not required today given that the function is built into most all devices.

The few shots at the bottom of this page are from 2020 – 2023 when I visited with my son, and were taken with an iPhone.