Friday, June 6, 2014

FELIZ - HAPPY


Emma, volunteer from the UK, writes about her experience creating grafitti with the teenagers on one of the walls of Proyecto Horizonte:

It had been in the pipeline for a while and had been waiting for the green light. Artists Pablo (MeXist) and Emma (Lil´em), we had had the chance to come and meet the young guys who wanted to be involved in  the graffiti wall and enlist them for the big wall. We came with previous work from ourselves and showed them what we could do and what we were about. The boys seemed very receptive so it was on!

On Saturday the wall needed to be primed with white latex ready for the Sunday to be sprayed. On Sunday MeXist arrived at 8.30am with friends to start sketching the outline and then I came to start the work a little later. At 10.30am we started with two boys and gave them the initial tips and skills for spraying a wall and how to coat well and see the process through from start to finish. It was as hot day and the boys showed great commitment and dedication to stick out 6 hours of spraying in the heat.

The boys started well and then an hour in we had an influx of more boys coming to get involved. It was great to have a crowd and enthusiastic team. We moved on from filling in to adding the detail and the outline and with each boy getting involved the time went by very quickly. MeXist added the final details and shading and then it came to tagging and putting the names on the wall.

All in all the day was a great success and the work shows for itself. The boys learnt a lot of new skills and techniques and hopefully were inspired to think about how graffiti can be used for art and not just territory tags. We were really pleased with the young guys and their work and special credit to Chura and Brayan who committed a lot of time to seeing the work from start to finish and are definite potential artists for the next graffiti wall that we do.

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