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Page 10 Street Roots • July 17-23, 2015 International , PH O T O S BY W A O N E , INTERESNI K A ZK I, A R T FOR ALL. TA SSO 1 his M iam i m ural was designed by artists Waone, pictured, and A E C - an art duo known as Interesni Kazki. Walls, lives and communities TRANSFORMED A drab wall in La Linea, Spain, has been transformed into a work o f art in collaboration with street artist Victor Ash, pictured above. BY ANNETTE WOYWODE ■ eter Claesson is beside himself. “You should have seen the faces B of these men,” he says enthusiastically while talking over the phone about his experiences in La Linea, the Spanish city on the Gibraltar border of Spain. “They were so happy and proud!” Together with internationally renowned C O N T R IB U T IN G W R IT E R street artist Victor Ash, eight homeless people have reformed a drab wall into an open-air painting in a deprived part of the city. Instead of gray concrete, there are now silhouettes of wild animals jumping off the bright white background. All day, they had See ART, page 11
