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Providence basketball courts’ ‘murals’ a fast break from the norm

Two courts at Fargnoli Park are a crazy quilt of vibrant colors and interlocking shapes. A black-and-yellow checkerboard here, undulating waves of red, yellow and green there ...

PROVIDENCE — The basketball courts at Fargnoli Park look nothing like what you’d expect.

Instead of the drab expanse of green, blue or grey intersected by white lines that typifies the norm, these two courts are a crazy quilt of vibrant colors and interlocking shapes. A black-and-yellow checkerboard here, undulating waves of red, yellow and green there.

Somehow it all makes sense as a place for basketball.

“I love it,” said Elijah Woods, a neighborhood resident and regular player here, as he took a break from a pickup game.