Local artist Jamie Pearson works on a mural of the Public Enemy album "Most of my Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp" along the wall of Hot Rod Cafe in New London on Sunday, June 21 2020. Pearson said he is working with businesses downtown to bring art to the walls and is also working on some murals at Berry´s Ice Cream and will be rehabbing other murals, such as the Whaling Wall on Eugene O'Neill Drive later this summer. “This alley is like my art gallery," he said of the space. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Local artist Jamie Pearson works on a mural of the Public Enemy album "Most of my Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp" along the wall of Hot Rod Cafe in New London on Sunday, June 21 2020. Pearson said he is working with businesses downtown to bring art to the walls and is also working on some murals at Berry´s Ice Cream and will be rehabbing other murals, such as the Whaling Wall on Eugene O'Neill Drive later this summer. “This alley is like my art gallery," he said of the space. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Local artist Jamie Pearson works on a mural of the Public Enemy album "Most of my Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp" along the wall of Hot Rod Cafe in New London on Sunday, June 21 2020. Pearson said he is working with businesses downtown to bring art to the walls and is also working on some murals at Berry´s Ice Cream and will be rehabbing other murals, such as the Whaling Wall on Eugene O'Neill Drive later this summer. “This alley is like my art gallery," he said of the space. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)