Exploring Constructive Change Through Color: A Coloring Book Collaboration Between Color Up Peace and Changing The Story
This ‘coloring book’ and exhibition is a result of a series of visual artistic transformations, adapted from the project Color Up Peace. Color Up Peace invites people from all over the world to submit photographs of what peace represents to them (some elements which inspire thoughts of peace, something which may symbolize peace, something potentially crucial for peace efforts based on the experiences of the photographers). I turn these photos into coloring pages and make them freely available on the Color Up Peace website . Someone else (or the photographer, or me, or you) colors the coloring page and so continues the transformation of the original vision of peace. The original idea behind the project is to encourage participants to think about peace and what peace means to them; to create opportunities for sharing visions of peace; to foster dialogue through collective visual art-making; to challenge the abundance of violence-centered visuals in the media and popular culture; and to e...