Washington Center has a new message for Portland lately: “Love, care, empathy, compassion, dignity, grace and stewardship.”

It’s the result of a new mural called 7 Pillars that wraps around the south and eastern walls of the shuttered downtown Portland commercial building at SW Fourth Avenue and Washington Street. The massive mural of bright, digitally-stylized words covers about 20,000 square feet and is a partnership between Washington Center’s owner Menashe Properties, the Portland Street Art Alliance, the city and Metro.

7 Pillars is by New Zealand street artist Askew One (aka Elliot O’Donnell), who has lived in Portland since 2022. This is Askew One’s first major public art since moving to the Rose City and an outgrowth of the artist’s graphically-rendered “word of the day” proje

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