"Tucked away in bus stops, on trains and at pedestrian crossings across UK cities and towns, Bern O’Donoghue’s paper boat art project is challenging the use of derogatory language and misinformation about refugees, migrants and immigrants"
" In order to challenge the use of derogatory language and misinformation about refugees, migrants and immigrants, O’Donoghue has created the art projec tRefugees Crossing, asking people to put fact filled paper boats in places where people travel and congregate. “We all need to help these people and engage the government to take a more compassionate position. Each paper boat has a fact about refugees on them. I’d like the boats to be seen in towns and cities across the UK, to remind people that refugees need and deserve our help.”....."read more in the link to the article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/they-need-and-deserve-our-help-introducing-the-refugee-crossing-art-project
I am drawn to this photo from the article and find it a brilliant placing of Look Both Ways at crossing. We need not to look the other way but look both ways to look at the reason for the need to flee for safety, we need to look within ourselves what would we do if faced with the same nightmares .....we need to look all ways on how to rebuild lives and gain peace in the world and eradication of poverty too. Poverty can be a reason to flee the pain of that poverty...... and poverty in the host country can cause hostilities to the added perceived burden of refugees and migrants. So we need to look at our global society and stop wars, stop conflicts, stop poverty and get our world leaders to care for all citizens in this world. We need to be a Global Family caring for one another and this planet that sustains us all. We need to look with respect for one another and this planet. It is no good criticizing the consequences of failed leaders but a need to take a look at the way society is built to cause these problems so we can reframe and modify to prevent the problems.. We need to look now in love and peace and harmony. This is possible if it is allowed to be possible....... I am moving closer to the end of my life journey but we have to look to save self destruction and ensure a good healthy planet and a healthy global society for us now, for our kids, for our grandkids and for our great grandkids. We cannot have them looking back on us and seeing how we bitterly failed to support and care for one another..... surely!
