ruination time and weather will deposit on your average urban walls." Parlá finds old posters from city streets, which he incorporates into his paintings to give a greater sense of place and create the impression of layers of posters papered over each other for generations. He paints over these with thick splashes of colour and abstract calligraphy, weaving lines connecting the works together, similarly to Cy Twombly's paintings from the 1950s. Each work attempts to describe the place where he is working. Exhibitions such as José Parlá: Segmented Realities (2015, High Museum of Art, Atlanta) recreate these walls in three dimension. Large scale murals Parla's first large-scale mural was for a Toronto housing development called City Place in 2009. In 2012 he painted a 70-foot long lobby mural titled Diary of Brooklyn for the Barclays Center, and a lobby painting for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fisher Theater. Parla worked on the two painting simultaneously, going back and forth between the two nearby buildings and working late. The next year he painted the mural The Nature of Language for the newly constructed James B. Hunt Jr. Library at the North Carolina State University. In 2014 Parlá painted ONE: Union of the Senses which is displayed in the lobby of One World Trade Center. The painting measures 15 ft by 90 ft, and is thought to be the largest painting in New York City. Career summary In 2011, Parlá was commissioned to paint two gigantic and highly detailed murals for the Parade1 building at Concord CityPlace in Toronto, Canada. The paintings titled The Names that Live But Sometimes Fade While Time Flies and The Bridge although abstract in nature- are filled with stories of different artists, which Parlá pays homage to through his calligraphic marks and gestures. In 2012, Parlá was commissioned to create a site specific-piece for the inside of the EmblemHealth Dean entrance at the Barclays Centre. The piece titled, Diary of Brooklyn is inspired by the book Brooklyn Is by James Agee and is visible from the street, creating an interaction with the public. In 2012, Parlá completed his first large scale commissioned artwork titled Gesture Performing Dance, Dance Performing Gesture. According to Parlá, this 37 feet long by 7 feet tall mural located at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music serves as a "reminder that we are not passive bystanders; we are active participants in a world that