Inhuman Barriers

After seeing another large scale piece of street art being painted over at the weekend, it made me wonder if they are preparing some blank canvasses around the city.

Cities of Hope was a Street Art convention in 2016 where nine of the world's best artists came to Manchester to paint around nine key social justice issues, and it's returning in 2018.  I'm really excited about what will be on display since I will now be looking with different eyes!

It has made me realise that I'd better get blipping before all the 2016 murals are temporarily turned into blank walls - hence my early morning blip!  I remember that black wall!  
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2468702232523047108

T'internet tells me that this mural was painted by Nevercrew and "addresses the theme of immigration, in support to the local solidarity group WASP (Women Asylum Seekers Together).  The project is about immigration and integration: about the loss of humanity and empathy, about barriers and values, and about the distant and often presumptuous position of who’s on the “right part” of the border.

A transforming quartz that recalls the sensations of an iceberg, where the most important part is hidden, not seen and not felt. Where there’s something on the top and something below, where there’s cold, hardness and darkness.

Using the double nature that we see in the quartz we want to show the condition in which many people are compelled (in many ways) and talk about borders (physical and cultural), both on a visual and emotional way, referring to the politics of the recent years that tend to stoke these barriers, emptying from human values our reality."

My extra photo is from the opposite wall and was painted by French artist C215 for the issue of homelessness.  He is well known for painting people on the fringes of society and often features the homeless, the elderly, street kids and refugees.

Quote for today:
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
-Sigmund Freud