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the dream of a dreamer come true

The artist that made his dream come true of representing the faces that conform his daily life and tell a bit of them to the foreigners who haven’t have the pleasure of meeting them.

Last sunday I was invited to one of the most emotional events that I remember. All started when Rusty, an american artist resident in Crown Heights (Brooklin), decided to finally gather the necessary money for making his dream come true. He always wanted to capture the people around him that were so different one from another and at the same time they learnt to live happily together. Rusty started to ask the people around for the things they wouldn’t use anymore in order to organize an auction, and therefore he got the necessary money for buying the canvases and cans of paints in order to start. I think it got him two years to paint 200 people, and finally this weekend he could show his work. He not only has got a place for his exhibition in the Children’s museum, he also got the colaboration of a musical band to gather people in the streets as well as some kind of quick marketing, which was no needed because he is really well known in the neighbourhood. Once inside the museum, food, drinks and sweets were served while we were looking to the portraits. It was a really good chance to meet new people, because we were playing to recognize people from the portraits that were around in the museum. In addition, it was really interesting to see that next to each portrait, there was this QR code that leaded you to a recorded audio where the person from the portrait was explaining his or her life story, so you could have a warmer feeling of the painting. It was very emotional to see how when there is disposition and good will, everything can happen.

Noelia Alvarez

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