NPR did an interview between their own Colin Dwyer and French street artist JR. The artist had a mental image that he wanted to make real. He traveled to an area of the border wall that separates Tecata, California from Tecata, Mexico. There he photographed a little boy, hugely enlarged the image, and erected in on the Mexican side of the wall. Seen from the American side it looks like the little boy is peering over the wall in the same manner he might peer over the railing of his crib. See the art here.
The photo and support structure took a bit of planning and happened to go up the same week the nasty guy canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), affecting 800,000 immigrants that came here illegally as children (creating a mess he then demands Congress must fix). This public art represents many such little boys.
JR’s art is doing one thing he hoped it would do – it is generating discussion.
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