Street artists are covering Colombia with rainbow-colored pleas for peace
Street artists are covering Colombia with rainbow-colored pleas for peace
AFP
Florence Panoussian, AFP
17minutes ago
A motorcyclist rides past a graffiti that reads "Peace is ours" in Bogota, Colombia AP Photo/Fernando Vergara
Bogota (AFP) - Spray-paint cans in hand, a generation of street artists is covering Colombia's run-down walls with rainbow-colored pleas for peace.
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On the streets of Bogota, corncobs that look like grenades and gun barrels sprouting carnations have provided the backdrop as the government and the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) worked for nearly four years to conclude a historic peace agreement.
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But that only fueled the creative fire for people like DjLu, a graffiti artist known for dotting central Bogota with black-and-white messages of peace.
"I prefer a twisted peace to a perfect war," said the secretive artist.
More:
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-colombian-street-artists-graffiti-for-peace-2016-10
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