Two for the price of one!

I think I am getting to the end of the Cities of Hope murals from 2016 but can see no sign of any new work starting. I hope they hurry up!

The benefit of these two murals is that they are side by side. I don't see any connection between the two images so perhaps it was just where the space was available.

On the left, Argentina’s Hyuro focuses on  the impact of war on children in conflict zones. She explains the piece saying that in addition to the direct consequences of war and armed violence, children are also indirectly affected by displacement, loss of family and trauma cause by the acts of violence they witness.

The giant mural depicts a blindfolded child holding an AK47 behind his back with an imposing shadow looming behind. Hyuro says the wall is "intended to give voice to all the lost innocence, all children who are fighting for their own survival, unable in front of the eyes of all, to live a childhood they deserve.”  
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The mural on the right is by Tankpetrol, a Polish street artist now based in Manchester, who realised a huge, detailed portrait of Anthony Burgess, the author of 'A Clockwork Orange'.

Burgess is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (which I have to admit I've never read), but altogether he wrote 33 novels, 25 works of non-fiction, 2 volumes of autobiography, 3 symphonies, more than 250 other musical works and thousands of essays, articles and reviews. I never knew he was so prolific!

Quote for today:
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange