Scottsdale born and raised, Leila Parnian has spent her whole life wanting to pursue art full time. Now, at the age of 40, she not only is a full-time artist but she just painted one of the tallest murals in Arizona.

The new Saiya apartment building in downtown Phoenix sports a colorful mural that’s a whopping 230 feet — that’s 23 stories — tall. The mural depicts a woman’s face looking out over the city. The eyes and eyebrows are Parnian’s.

“The face is like an abstract face. You can tell it’s essentially a female, it has female attributes, but it has a sense of mystery but yet she’s bold and those are actually my eyes and eyebrows on her,” Parnian said.

 

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Learn more about Saiya at the community’s website here.