The images in this series depict the marine life murals of the artist Robert Wyland. The murals were mostly painted during the height of the “save the whales” campaign in the 1980s and 90s, and they portray whales breaching the water on skyscrapers or peacefully looking over vast expanses of parked cars. Today, in a world saturated by images of all kinds, they blend into the urban environment and serve as fading monuments to a forgotten environmental movement. Many have even been erased from the landscape altogether. They represent a time when, as a society, we resisted the transition to a de-natured life by awkwardly altering our urban environment. Today, however, these disappearing facades point to a vanishing desire to be reminded of the natural world in our increasingly utilitarian cities. The photographs in this series also highlight an approach to American urban design which ultimately led to almost every major US city having a whale mural somewhere in the city center.