Painting the wall.Illustrator Eric Drooker Eric Drooker is an American painter, animator and graphic novelist.'' Drooker grew up on New York's Lower East Side, which was then a working-class immigrant neighborhood with a tradition of left-wing political activism. and muralist Susan Greene went to the Occupied Territories This article is about occupied territory in general: for more specific discussion of the territories captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, see Israeli-occupied territories. Occupied territories , where they joined Palestinians painting the Wall that Israel has erected in their land. This was part of a mural project called Break the Silence. Here's how Drooker described their work: "I leaned a rickety rick·et·y adj. rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est 1. Likely to break or fall apart; shaky. 2. Feeble with age; infirm. 3. Of, having, or resembling rickets. ladder against the Wall and climbed up, holding a jar of red acrylic in my left hand, a long bristle bristle 1. the thick strong animal fibers collected at commercial abattoirs for use in brushes. 2. the sharp serrated awns of grass and some cereal seeds that confer a capacity to penetrate normal skin and mucosa and to cause ulcerative stomatitis, grass seed abscess and the like. brush in my right, and got to work. Below me, Susan has begun handing out brushes and cups of bright primary colors to the dozen or so local children who live in the house facing the Wall. Without hesitation, the girls and boys instantly start painting animals, flowers, trees, and faces on the twenty-foot-high concrete wall. Reaching as high as I can, trembling on the top rungs of the ladder, I outline, in scarlet, the wings of an enormous tropical bird.... With a wingspan of ten feet, still wet, but drying fast in the noonday sun, the Firebird is born again with long-tailed plumage plumage, of birds: see feathers. and is flying over the Wall, which, like all walls, will, in time, crumble and fall." To see more of Eric Drooker's work, go to his website, www.drooker.com. To see more of Break the Silence's work, go to www.breakthesilencearts.org. |
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