{"id":13185,"date":"2019-08-30T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2019-09-08T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T05:38:29","slug":"somerville-murals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/08\/30\/somerville-murals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look At Three New Somerville Murals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,\u201d Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a Nepali artist living in Somerville, said of the calligraphic mural in orange and blue that she\u2019s painting at 47 Webster Ave. in Somerville. She was speaking at the Aug. 22 artists panel at the East Branch of the Somerville Public Library, hosted by Dave Ortega of the Somerville Media Center, which broadcast the discussion. Imagine is one of three artists commissioned by the city to paint murals in the community this summer.<\/p>\n

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Mural in progress by Imagine (Sneha Shrestha) at 47 Webster Ave., Somerville, Aug. 29, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was thinking about different things I could write in my native language,\u201d Imagine said. \u201cUsually reading the wall isn\u2019t part of what I expect people to do, because it\u2019s in Napali or it\u2019s in Sanskrit. Obviously people won\u2019t be able to read. The idea behind it is to be able to appreciate something that looks different from a different culture, and still respect and appreciate it. And still have conversations about it. Or ask questions about it. The idea comes just the idea of people from all different walks of life in one city. \u2026 So I choose a phrase and I repeat it over and over again throughout the wall. The phrase that I\u2019m writing in Nepali is \u2018Home is where the heart is free.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n