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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:23 PM Oct 2015

Why 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.html

The 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.




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Why an artist painted a U.S.-Mexico border fence sky blue (Original Post) KamaAina Oct 2015 OP
If a Republican had done this... Bucky Oct 2015 #1
The paint would come from Acme, of course KamaAina Oct 2015 #2
Did you know that cons go out in the desert and destroy bottles of water left for randys1 Oct 2015 #3
While that disgusts me... Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #4

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
1. If a Republican had done this...
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:25 PM
Oct 2015

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
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:28 PM
Oct 2015

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
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:28 PM
Oct 2015

immigrants?

Ari Rabin- Havt did a documentary on this stuff, truly frightening what so called fellow Americans do.

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