realize an artistic vision(Joshua Hawkins still has no idea who hired him to paint a mural of the Cookie Monster on a commercial building in Peoria, Ill. – but it sure wasn't the owner. The Illinois artist says a man purporting to be the property owner commissioned him to realize a very specific artistic vision, reminiscent of a Soviet-era propaganda poster, of the beloved Sesame Street character holding up a cookie shooting a rainbow over a cityscape with the Russian words, "Peace. Land. Cookies."cbc.caART Vancouver)
