Artist’s Border Mural Seeks to Protest Trump’s Wall Mexico News Daily
go to original October 29, 2017

Artists from the United States and Mexico are painting an extensive mural on the border fence in Tijuana, focusing on bright, uplifting scenery and positive messages. (KPBS News)

Prototypes of United States President Donald Trump’s new border wall were presented last week in San Diego, where officials will prepare to select the design that will fence the U.S. from its southern neighbor.

But it may end up being more than just a fence: a Mexican artist has thoughts of turning it into a canvas.

Tijuana artist Enrique Chiu has already begun painting the border wall. He took his paint brushes to the fence on the beaches of Tijuana, in an area known as Toreo, last December and began to paint.

His goal is to paint a mural that will cover more than 18,000 square meters and capture the Guinness record for the world’s largest outdoor mural, a title currently held by a 12,000-square-meter mural in the U.S. state of Ohio.

But the Brotherhood Mural, as Chiu has named his project, is intended to do more than break a record.

The existing fence and the proposed wall on the Mexico-U.S. border, he told the newspaper La Jornada in July, “are a sign of rejection and exclusion. The Mexican people, the Hispanics and Latinos are the ones that hit that wall. A wall of incomprehension.”

The project, he explained, is dedicated “to all those people who are looking for a better life. Who take enormous risks. Or those have been deported and are separated from their families.”

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