Ariel Parrow & Sean Hamilton (Ariel website, Ariel Instagram ; Sean website, Sean Instagram)
Location: 2320 4th Avenue
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Some murals earn their location. Save It for Today, painted on the side of Belltown’s Fire Station 2 is one of them — a vibrant, full-scale collaboration between two Seattle artists who have built a real creative partnership over years of working together.
Ariel Parrow and Sean Hamilton have collaborated on multiple projects before this one, including a mural at a Georgetown car dealership and a piece at the Hoodoo Mural Festival in Amarillo, Texas. Their Belltown piece is the latest chapter in an ongoing conversation between two distinct artistic sensibilities.
Parrow’s work favors bold colors and punchy, playful subjects — a style she describes as the perfect balance of risk-taking and mark-making, rooted in large-scale painting and murals. Her work began with flora and fauna and evolved toward pop art and poster-inspired imagery that feels like an extension of her personality: colorful, daring, and a little carefree.
Hamilton comes from a different direction entirely — raised in rural Idaho, he draws on imagery from his roots: racing, motorcycles, heavy equipment, and the inherent absurdity of middle American life. After a career in advertising, he brought that world’s visual immediacy to canvas, creating bold, graphic work that forces a set of priorities and questions rather than simply decorating a surface.
Together, those two sensibilities — Parrow’s exuberant color and Hamilton’s sharp, graphic wit — land on a fire station wall that serves one of Belltown’s most active streets. The title itself feels right for a neighborhood in the middle of a revival: a reminder to hold onto what matters, right now, today.
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