SEEDS

Mixed Media Mural, 2014

Innovation Space, Arsenal Project, Watertown, MA

This mural was created alongside collaborating artist Felipe Ortiz and a group of young rural entrepreneurs from across Colombia’s countryside. The group had come to Boston on an exchange program to further develop their entrepreneurial ideas; the program had been designed to encourage young people not to abandon the countryside in the wake of civil war. For our mural, each participant represented their entrepreneurial idea on a seed using both words and images. They then passed these seeds around the group and each participant created leaves (again, with words and images) that reflected how they thought their peers’ ideas would help their communities grow.