SOME WALLS ARE INVISIBLE

Groundswell Community Mural Project ©
www.groundswellmural.org

Acrylic on Wall
75 x 30 ft
2010

Lead Artists: Nicole Schulman and Chris Soria
Youth Artists: Ahmathya Edwards, Shauna Fitzgerald, Angel Garcia, Brian Jean-Louis, Ivan Jacobson, Jasper Kerbs, Christopher Konecky, Maikel Noyer-Deviez, Isidoro Ramos, Keyla Rijo, Ashley Sullivan, Fernando Tejada, Ye Yan
Location: 162 Van Dyke Street at Cornell Paper Building, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Community Partners: Miles for Justice, Rampart Films, Red Hook Community Justice Center

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This mural on Brooklyn's Red Hook waterfront, examines the ways that visibile attributes of race and ethnicity can be invisible barriers to equality and justice that can be overcome with careful attention to our shared humanity and principles of human rights. Two dominant images in the composition; a head that is either exploding into facets or cohering, and a young man holding an image of the earth with a section cut away, suggest that our identities and our world are comprised of powerful forces that can drive us apart or unify us. The project was commissioned by a Dutch human rights charity in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Dutch settlement in North America.