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A Day off Turns into a Full Work Day...

4/1/2014

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I'd seen on my agenda that I was going to have a day off yesterday. I emailed the group I am working and collaborating with and expressed that I would like to offer a school or an organization from Costa Rica a gift via a mural instead of just staying in the hotel. 

My friend and mentor Gina Marin Rojas acquired a wall for me inside the Rincon Grande School in Pavas, Costa Rica.  Knowing that I had about 4 solid hours to work on the mural - I had aimed to work on my own. 

This was true until about the 2nd hour - groups of students would come up to me and ask questions about what I was doing and of coarse if they could have a spray-can to paint their bikes - then there was one - he came up to me, got a spray-can and firmly said - "I want to paint." - suddenly what seemed to be the whole school wanted to paint with me. 

I was pleased and felt honored to share with the youth. I talked to the contact person at the school - Randall Paredes (who was present when this happened) and it was decided that we would go to the wall across from the one that I was painting so we could paint some Community Love Frequencies - and we did! By the time I left it was dark so the finalized mural photo is not the greatest - but I do know a lot of those kids received my gift just as I received theirs - joyous laughter. 
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Students from Rincon Grande School in Pavas, Costa Rica learning spray-can techniques as well as life-skills such as sharing, communication and self-empowerment. 

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Finalized student mural of Community Love Frequencies. 

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Mural I painted across from the students mural. I titled this one, Pavas Messenger of Unity and Strength. 

3 Comments
Jeffrey Lello
4/1/2014 12:48:19 pm

You are just amazing. I learn from each and every post you make. Thank you.

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Hector Martinez Guerra
4/1/2014 02:37:18 pm

Isaiah, you are an insurgent admirable, by breaking your field of action limits of a quadrangle of fabric encased between four pieces of wood, your pictorial expression not only us participates but includes us, we invite to be part of the the stage,you disappear us as only spectators to be performers, as if it were a communal ritual, and it is when we see life in an art dedicated to the cult of color to remind us that color is a luxury of nature, vibrant colors of Sun, gemstones, feathers of birds and those volatile flowers... butterflies and other butterflies that live among the branches and call "flowers".This is the message that conveys your work.I congratulate you.

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Yvette Valenzuela
4/2/2014 02:56:10 am

Hector Martinez Guerra so eloquently wrote, "communal ritual". Those young souls were so hungry and they were fed through art. Shift for the better has already occured for all who participated. God continues to radiate all the Love.

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