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Street Roots • July 17-23, 2015
International
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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
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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
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