{"id":251,"date":"2016-02-11T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T07:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artherapievirtus.org\/vda\/?p=251"},"modified":"2016-08-11T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:34:53","slug":"wall-love-commemorates-paris-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artherapievirtus.org\/vda\/wall-love-commemorates-paris-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wall of Love\u2019 Commemorates Paris Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Logo-Nex-York-Times\"<\/a>By MARTINA BELLISARIO<\/span> and <\/span>DONATO PAOLO MANCINI<\/span><\/span>
\nParis Attacks
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\u201cI was really afraid, and I felt all alone,\u201d Diana Kami, an artist who lives in the 10th<\/sup> Arrondissement with her daughter, said of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris<\/a> that left 130 people dead, many in her neighborhood. The next Monday, after dropping her daughter at school, she was overwhelmed by a desire to make art.<\/p>\n

Almost instinctively, she said, she began to paint on a wall along rue Alibert that is often used as a canvas for local street artists \u2013 and is just steps from Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon, two cafes targeted in the attacks.<\/p>\n

Several mothers from her daughter\u2019s school, just on the other side of the wall, took notice of Ms. Kami\u2019s work and requested permission from the local government to paint the entire wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do something,\u201d said one of them, Gaelle Giffard, who crowdfunded 500 euros from the neighborhood to cover the cost of paint.<\/p>\n

The result is \u201cDessine-Moi un Bouquet<\/a>,\u201d a communitywide initiative that invited street and graffiti artists, as well as local residents and children, to cover the wall with images in response to the attacks.<\/p>\n

One mother told Ms. Kami that the wall, nicknamed Le Mur de l\u2019Amour, or wall of love, has had a calming effect so that she is no longer afraid to walk in the street. An elderly man told Ms. Kami that simply watching her paint helped him find peace.<\/p>\n

For her own contribution, Ms. Kami painted a forest of trees, their branches outstretched. \u201cIn nature, the hunter protects himself in the forest,\u201d she said, \u201cand the tree is life. It\u2019s to protect the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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