{"id":503,"date":"2015-01-08T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:44:38","slug":"bachors-mosaics-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/bachors-mosaics-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Potholes Beware: Bachor&#8217;s Mosaics are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, I <a title=\"Artist\u2019s Mosaics Fill the Potholes of Chicago\" href=\"\/blog\/mosaics-fill-the-potholes-of-chicago\/\">posted<\/a> about Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor who took it upon himself to tackle&nbsp;the city&#8217;s pothole problem by filling them with handmade tile mosaics. &nbsp;He&#8217;s recently popped up again with a new&nbsp;approach to his guerrilla pothole repair. He&#8217;s transitioned from mosaics featuring arbitrary serial numbers and simple descriptions (e.g. &#8220;POTHOLE&#8221;) to beautiful floral designs. So far, Bachor has given his floral mosaic treatment to four potholes throughout Chicago;&nbsp;locations and photos can be found <a title=\"Jim Bachor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bachor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on his website<\/a>. He&#8217;s also been commissioned for some truly beautiful installations, photos of which can also be found on Bachor&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a title=\"Jim Bachor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bachor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bachor.com<\/a>&nbsp;(h\/t: <a title=\"Guerrilla Artist Fills Chicago Potholes With Flower Mosaics | Bored Panda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/pothole-mosaic-jim-bachor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">boredpanda<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"link-bachors1\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_orange1.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Bachor\u2019s pothole mosaic art installation in Chicago featuring tile artwork\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_orange1.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_orange1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_orange1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_orange1-624x831.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/3.2.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nvar link = '[insert_php]echo get_page_link(); [\/insert_php]';\nvar listItems = $('#link-bachors1');\nvar loc = window.location.href;\nvar url = loc.split(\"\/\");\nvar lastPart = url[url.length - 2];\nvar page = url[url.length - 3];\nif (lastPart == 'blog'|| ((page == 'page') && (lastPart == parseInt(lastPart, 10)))) {\n  listItems.attr('href', link);\n} else {\n  listItems.each(function(index, as) {\n    as.href = as.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")[0].src;\n  });\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"link-bachors2\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_red2.jpg\" alt=\"Tile mosaic of a rose embedded in a Chicago pothole as urban street art\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_red2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_red2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_red2-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/3.2.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nvar link = '[insert_php]echo get_page_link(); [\/insert_php]';\nvar listItems = $('#link-bachors2');\nvar loc = window.location.href;\nvar url = loc.split(\"\/\");\nvar lastPart = url[url.length - 2];\nvar page = url[url.length - 3];\nif (lastPart == 'blog'|| ((page == 'page') && (lastPart == parseInt(lastPart, 10)))) {\n  listItems.attr('href', link);\n} else {\n  listItems.each(function(index, as) {\n    as.href = as.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")[0].src;\n  });\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"link-bachors3\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_purple1.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclist riding by a flower mosaic tile artwork in a Chicago pothole by Jim Bachor\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_purple1.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_purple1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_purple1-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bachor_purple1-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/3.2.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nvar link = '[insert_php]echo get_page_link(); [\/insert_php]';\nvar listItems = $('#link-bachors3');\nvar loc = window.location.href;\nvar url = loc.split(\"\/\");\nvar lastPart = url[url.length - 2];\nvar page = url[url.length - 3];\nif (lastPart == 'blog'|| ((page == 'page') && (lastPart == parseInt(lastPart, 10)))) {\n  listItems.attr('href', link);\n} else {\n  listItems.each(function(index, as) {\n    as.href = as.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")[0].src;\n  });\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, I posted about Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor who took it upon himself to tackle&nbsp;the city&#8217;s pothole problem by filling them with handmade tile mosaics. &nbsp;He&#8217;s recently popped up again with a new&nbsp;approach to his guerrilla pothole repair. He&#8217;s transitioned from mosaics featuring arbitrary serial numbers and simple descriptions (e.g. &#8220;POTHOLE&#8221;) to beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,35,7,36],"tags":[19,39,37,9,95,40,38],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-jim-bachor","category-mosaics","category-street-art","tag-art-2","tag-chicago","tag-jim-bachor-2","tag-mosaics-2","tag-pothole-mosaics","tag-potholes","tag-street-art-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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