By Faris Rifai
(Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the Syrian revolution’s distinctive outcomes was the art of graffiti that first used by a school children in Daraa six years ago, such an inscription sparked the regime anger to start from that date a relentless war on the Syrian people.
Graffiti has accompanied the changes in the Syrian revolution over the last six years, reflecting people’s suffering and hopes.
Southern of Damascus had its own story about graffiti, as after the agreement between the regime and rebels 2013 and controlling the rest of the Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus by the Islamic State, people lost their enthusiasm and fear of repeating the difficult time of siege, therefore, they started to draw on walls to express their pain and feeling and keeping the soul of the revolution in a peaceful way.
The Revolution Spring gathering is a collection of 9 graffiti artists, started its activities in the end of 2013, after controlling Yarmouk camp by the Islamic State and displacing the majority of its population, they wanted to work on encouraging people and give them hope, besides keeping the soul of the revolution by drawing on walls to deliver their messages. Their first graffiti was a picture named: “we and Yarmouk the same, brother”.
Sami Darkashli, a graffiti designer within the Revolution Spring gathering told Zaman al-Wasl that he can draw a graffiti with very effective and important message by using simple artistic methods, as such picture encourage people and increase the feeling of solidarity with other disastrous areas like Aleppo.
“drawing on walls in the simplest way to deliver required messages, away from the complexity of Social media of other news channels” Darkashli added.
He detailed that they have a designing team who decide what, when and where to draw a graffiti according to circumstances, for example, encouraging one are drawn on destructed places, while for delivering particular message, pictures are drawn in busy places like streets and markets.
Darkeshli confirmed that people had reacted to their drawing as some of them asked them to do the graffiti near their houses.
he considered the graffiti one of the main artistic forms of the Syrian revolution, as its simplicity facilitate its delivery to all people in all ages, added to the familiarity and cosiness people feel toward a picture close to them .
Mohammed Abo Qassim one of the Graffiti team in the Revolution Spring gathering, considered graffiti as a form of peaceful activity, similar to demonstrations and brochures, as it is a completion to the primary revolutionary movement.
He added that the “Spray man” who used to put his own writing and drawing on walls despite the close monitoring of regime intelligence, using very simple methods.
“but we first draw the picture on cartoon board, then we make as template to spry in between spaces, then we add minor details by using our hands.
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