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Emoji Dispenser mural by Leon Keer, Town Center parking deck, East Avenue at Rock Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

The corner of a concrete parking deck painted as a giant, worn turquoise gumball machine with a silver coin mechanism and chute; its glass front is packed with round emoji faces instead of gum. The side to the right is painted as stacked cardboard shipping boxes with labels and stickers, and “Leon Keer” is written at the top left. Shrubs and a fire hydrant stand at its foot.
Artwork FileFayetteville · USA
SeenAug 2025

Emoji Dispenser

Leon Keer · a 3D gumball machine filled with emoji faces, beside painted shipping boxes, summer 2025 · corner of the Town Center parking deck, East Avenue at Rock Street, downtown Fayetteville

Photo as published by Street Art Utopia; photographer not named

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A corner of a concrete parking deck in downtown Fayetteville now looks like a vending machine the height of the building, its glass front stuffed with emoji faces instead of gum, with cardboard boxes stacked around the next corner. Dutch street artist Leon Keer painted it in summer 2025, when the City of Fayetteville commissioned him for its downtown parking decks. The city calls the machine “a mirror of modern society” and asks: “which emotion would you take from the machine today?” Regional TV reported the finished murals on 23 August 2025.

5 things to know

  1. A machine that sells feelingsThe City of Fayetteville: the dispenser is “a playful yet unsettling reflection on how emotions themselves have become commodities.” Its page ends with a question for passers-by: “which emotion would you take from the machine today?” City of Fayetteville
  2. One wall became twoIn May 2025 KUAF reported that Keer would paint a mural on the West Avenue Parking Deck. The city’s page says the plan changed: “Rather than a single mural on the West Avenue Parking Deck”, Keer painted two, “Emoji Dispenser” on the Town Center deck and “Gravity of Memory” on the Fayetteville Public Library deck. KUAF · City of Fayetteville
  3. Colours chosen on the spotKeer sent grayscale renderings for review, and on the wall “Keer chooses, mixes and applies the color on site”, the city says. City of Fayetteville
  4. An $84,000 projectThe city: “The contract for this project totals $84,000.” The consultancy AGAR “served as the lead consultant on the project following a competitive selection process.” City of Fayetteville
  5. His usual trick, in 3DKNWA/Fox 24 described both murals in Keer’s “signature 3D illusion style”; the library-deck mural also has an “augmented reality feature that brings the artwork to life on your phone.” Street Art Cities calls the Town Center piece an “Anamorphic mural”. KNWA · Street Art Cities

Check-in guide

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“The Town Center Parking Deck, on the corner of East Avenue and Rock Street”, at the deck entrance (City of Fayetteville). KNWA places it on the southeastern facade between East Avenue and Rock Street (KNWA).
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Keer’s second Fayetteville mural, “Gravity of Memory”, is on the Fayetteville Public Library parking deck facing Mountain Street (City of Fayetteville).
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The Maps button uses the Street Art Cities coordinates, 36.0609529, -94.1597912.
Open in MapsCity mural page

Sightings

  1. 20259 May

    KUAF: Keer selected

  2. 20251 Aug

    Street Art Cities: created

  3. 202523 Aug

    KNWA: two murals done

Every stamp links to the dated source. All three are dated reports, shown in amber: KUAF on the city’s choice of Keer (9 May 2025), the Street Art Cities entry added by the artist, which gives 1 August 2025 as the date the work was created, and KNWA’s report on the two finished murals (23 August 2025). We found no dated photo of the wall that we could open, and no report of damage.

On the record

City of Fayettevilleundated

Downtown Parking Deck Murals

“the dispenser becomes a mirror of modern society, a playful yet unsettling reflection on how emotions themselves have become commodities.”

The city’s project page for Keer’s two murals.

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KNWA / Fox 2423 August 2025

Fayetteville showcases world-renowned Dutch artist’s murals

“signature 3D illusion style”

By Justin Trobaugh, on the Town Center and library-deck murals.

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The facts

Artist
Leon Keer, Dutch street artist (City of Fayetteville, KNWA, Street Art Cities, Experience Fayetteville) Checked. His name is painted at the top left of the machine (photo at the top of this page).
Shows
A giant dispenser filled with emoji faces (City of Fayetteville) Checked; the painted shipping boxes on the next face of the deck are visible in the photo at the top.
Painted
Summer 2025 (City of Fayetteville, Experience Fayetteville, KNWA) Checked. Street Art Cities gives 1 August 2025 as the creation date (Street Art Cities) Reported
Commission
City of Fayetteville (City of Fayetteville, KUAF, Street Art Cities) Checked, with AGAR as lead consultant and a contract total of $84,000 for the project, according to the city (City of Fayetteville) Reported. Keer was chosen by May 2025 (KUAF) Checked
Place
Town Center parking deck, corner of East Avenue and Rock Street, downtown Fayetteville (City of Fayetteville, KNWA) Checked. Street Art Cities gives the address as 15 W Mountain St (Street Art Cities) Reported
Our photo
As published by Street Art Utopia in September 2025, with a file name crediting curation by AGAR; the photographer is not named and the photo is not dated (Street Art Utopia) Checked
Status
Seen August 2025: KNWA reported the finished murals on 23 August 2025 (KNWA) Reported. We found no newer dated photo and no report of damage.

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