There are certain things you can bank on in the Atlanta landscape. Potholes. Flash floods. Plastic floss picks. And the image of a pair of reverently folded hands proclaiming “Pray for ATL” signed R.L. Ministries.
Created by the city’s arch satirist — artist R. Land — street art provocations like “Pray for ATL,” “Yuppie Ghetto” and his “Georgia Music Land” map have made this outspoken 6’2” merry prankster a local legend.
His cartoony, pop culture-surfing, outlandishly colorful works on paper or wood pop up on walls and telephone poles around the city, and include a wacky menagerie of animal characters — snails, alligators, bumblebees, ants, birds, Speckles the cat, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Scout the Ham Cat and a “wanted” poster for the most reckless feline of them all, Loss Cat (his most