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Miracle Of Colours by Nilofar Niri and Nursery Children
By Nilofar Niri herself:
“This picture is a collaboration between me and nursery children. They are from international backgrounds, with different skin colors.
When they started painting there were too many children and just a few brushes but amazingly without anyone tell them what to do they started using their hands instead of brushes and they managed to play without fighting for short periods of time and they were so happy. I think in a sweet way, it is a small example of truce.”
(Via http://londonist.com/2012/08/thing-to-do-in-the-olympic-park-phone-box-art.php )
“Look out for these dissected and reassembled phone boxes, dotted around the Olympic Park. As works of sculpture, they are eye-catching, bold and oh-so-London. But a closer inspection reveals that they’re more than simply shuffled kiosks.
Each contains tiny raised writing around the window frames, giving historical background to the immediate surroundings. By ‘historical’, we’re not talking major battles or the coronation of kings, but the recent industrial past of the site, now swept away by Olympic developments. For example:
From this spot could once be seen the legendary Fridge Mountain of Hackney Wick. This local landmark – a precarious pile of steel, white plastic and insulating foam — was one of Europe’s largest dumps of discarded refrigerators.”
Do check out the original article at the wonderful http://londonist.com
Give Respect and Earn Respect
A collaboration between schoolchildren and artist Clare Burnett, based around the themes of Olympic Truce.
Truce by Florence Whittle
A collaboration between schoolchildren and artist Clare Burnett, based around the themes of Olympic Truce.
Truce by Kendra Simmonds
A collaboration between schoolchildren and artist Clare Burnett, based around the themes of Olympic Truce.
Video on the Olympic Truce by Haider Ali and Team Pakistan, music by Nella Fantasia and Bruna Amaral, aged 11, Brazil.
An Uneasy Truce by Jonelle
Part of a series of images for a truce-related artwork by Headstarters, facilitated by SODA.
