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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy an artist painted a U.S.-Mexico border fence sky blue
http://news.yahoo.com/why-an-artist-painted-a-u-s--mexico-border-fence-sky-blue-194325440.htmlThe artist who painted a U.S.-Mexico border fence sky blue to erase divisions among different countries was pleasantly surprised that it resonated with so many people including members of Border Patrol.
Ana Teresa Fernández, who was born in Mexico and raised in California, led about 30 volunteers for six hours in painting the Nogales border fence between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora on Oct. 13.
The idea behind Erasing the Border is to blur the border fence into the landscape giving the impression that a portion of it is missing, an illusion of a hole in the wall, where your imagination is able to cross between these two countries freely, she said to Yahoo News via email.
Fernández, a 34-year-old visual artist living in San Francisco, said she spent about an hour looking at nearly a hundred Pantone paint chips to find the blue that most resembled the sky. Then she covered about 50 feet of the southern side of the 25-foot-high fence to give Mexicans a prettier view.
Ana Teresa Fernández, who was born in Mexico and raised in California, led about 30 volunteers for six hours in painting the Nogales border fence between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora on Oct. 13.
The idea behind Erasing the Border is to blur the border fence into the landscape giving the impression that a portion of it is missing, an illusion of a hole in the wall, where your imagination is able to cross between these two countries freely, she said to Yahoo News via email.
Fernández, a 34-year-old visual artist living in San Francisco, said she spent about an hour looking at nearly a hundred Pantone paint chips to find the blue that most resembled the sky. Then she covered about 50 feet of the southern side of the 25-foot-high fence to give Mexicans a prettier view.
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Why an artist painted a U.S.-Mexico border fence sky blue (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2015
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Bucky
(53,795 posts)1. If a Republican had done this...
I would have suspected it was a plot to trick immigrants into running into a wall.
But maybe I watched too much Wile E Coyote as a kid.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. The paint would come from Acme, of course
and Wile E. would hear "Beep beep!" right behind him, get startled, and run right smack into the wall himself.
randys1
(16,286 posts)3. Did you know that cons go out in the desert and destroy bottles of water left for
immigrants?
Ari Rabin- Havt did a documentary on this stuff, truly frightening what so called fellow Americans do.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)4. While that disgusts me...
...I can't say that it surprises me. And that's just sad.