Austin’s art scene, like many of this city’s inhabitants, spends much of its time outdoors. Downtown Austin is peppered with murals and street art that both beautify the streets and make the city unique. Though some pieces are more iconic than others, all of the city’s murals play a huge role in the cultural fabric of downtown Austin. The city and its visitors have embraced these murals wholeheartedly, from longstanding works like the Austin Postcard, to more recent additions like “You’re my Butter Half” and Historic Sixth Street. Even the simple spray painted “I love you so much” on the side of Jo’s Coffee Shop on South Congress Avenue has become one of the city’s most well-known and beloved pieces of street art.

The newest addition to the city’s outdoor art collection is a new mural by artist Daniel Johnston that was unveiled on December 1^st. This new work, on Nau’s Enfield Drug on West Lynn Street, features a cape wearing superhero and the words “Love is the question, love is the answer.” Johnston, who painted the iconic Jerimiah the Innocent (commonly known as the “Hi, how are you?” frog) on Guadalupe in 1993, is an Austin-based musician and artist, and this mural is his first new work in more than 20 years. The mural also functions as a charitable initiative, with all proceeds from T-shirts of the work being donated to Superhero Kids, an organization that helps kids with blood disorders and cancer at Dell Children’s Medical Center, until December 31^st.