Preparations to paint the world’s tallest picture by IDP children in northern Aleppo camps
Northern Aleppo – North-Press Agency
Dejla Khalil
The children of Afrin region, who are displaced in camps in the northern countryside of Aleppo, are preparing to draw the largest painting in the world entitled “fingerprints of pain”, to express what they feel by drawing, under the supervision of a number of plastic artists.
The project preparatory committee contacted the Guinness Book of Records to introduce the painting into the global encyclopedia, in terms of the length of the painting and the number of children participating in the drawing, while the Guinness Book of Records requested them to provide evidence and information to study their application, by UNICEF organization in the region.
The painting is at a length of 500m, and a width of 160cm, as two thousand displaced children from Afrin along with children from the northern villages of Aleppo will participate in the drawing, and they will start painting on the 2nd of September, which marks the International Children’s Day.
Ardalan Ibrahim, one of the plastic artists who supervise the painting, told North-Press that the project aims to “help the displaced children from Afrin to alleviate the psychological effects of warfare upon them, by providing a feather and colors to express and to convey their innocent message from the camps to the world’s children, away from bullets and bombs, on the International Children’s Day”.
“We have completed the first stage by preparing the floor for painting, as now we have started to prepare the basic colors then to be mixed with one another,” said Berivan Hamdoush, one of the project supervisors.
Hamdoush pointed out that she is working on preparing of composite colors that “will reflect the children,” indicating that it will help children to choose colors that “will reflect what they feel inside”.
The event will be held at the initiative of Intellectuals Union of Afrin, and a number of plastic artists from Afrin with the sponsorship of Rumaf Agency.
Nouri Adnan, the director of Rumaf agency, noted that the aim of the project is “to deliver cultural messages to the whole world”.
It is worth mentioning that on October 28 last year, about 400 children in the camps of northern Aleppo countryside had participated in drawing a painting of 200m.
The children of Afrin region, who are displaced in camps in the northern countryside of Aleppo, are preparing to draw the largest painting in the world entitled “fingerprints of pain”, to express what they feel by drawing, under the supervision of a number of plastic artists.
The project preparatory committee contacted the Guinness Book of Records to introduce the painting into the global encyclopedia, in terms of the length of the painting and the number of children participating in the drawing, while the Guinness Book of Records requested them to provide evidence and information to study their application, by UNICEF organization in the region.
The painting is at a length of 500m, and a width of 160cm, as two thousand displaced children from Afrin along with children from the northern villages of Aleppo will participate in the drawing, and they will start painting on the 2nd of September, which marks the International Children’s Day.
Ardalan Ibrahim, one of the plastic artists who supervise the painting, told North-Press that the project aims to “help the displaced children from Afrin to alleviate the psychological effects of warfare upon them, by providing a feather and colors to express and to convey their innocent message from the camps to the world’s children, away from bullets and bombs, on the International Children’s Day”.
“We have completed the first stage by preparing the floor for painting, as now we have started to prepare the basic colors then to be mixed with one another,” said Berivan Hamdoush, one of the project supervisors.
Hamdoush pointed out that she is working on preparing of composite colors that “will reflect the children,” indicating that it will help children to choose colors that “will reflect what they feel inside”.
The event will be held at the initiative of Intellectuals Union of Afrin, and a number of plastic artists from Afrin with the sponsorship of Rumaf Agency.
Nouri Adnan, the director of Rumaf agency, noted that the aim of the project is “to deliver cultural messages to the whole world”.
It is worth mentioning that on October 28 last year, about 400 children in the camps of northern Aleppo countryside had participated in drawing a painting of 200m.