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Cookie Monster Mural Puzzles Artist and Enrages Property Owner
A man claiming to be a property owner in Peoria, Ill., wanted a Soviet-style mural of Cookie Monster. The artist who did the job now says he was tricked (and paid) by an impostor.
The artist Joshua Hawkins said it took 10 people to complete the mural in Peoria, Ill., over Thanksgiving weekend.Credit.Joshua Hawkins
Dec. 16, 2020
Joshua Hawkins said the request seemed “pretty weird,” but the dark-haired man who made it was offering cash, and a lot of it.
The man said his name was Nate and he wanted Mr. Hawkins, a local artist, to paint an enormous Soviet-style mural of Cookie Monster the voracious, pastry-loving “Sesame Street” creature and three Russian words on a commercial building in Peoria, Ill.