Texas artists honor the Uvalde victims with 21 murals they hope will help healing. | via NPR
Some of the murals that have gone up in Uvalde in memory of children who were killed at the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
In Uloang's portrait, Maranda stands smiling in turquoise waters. Eleven Koi fish swim around her, a number chosen because she was 11 years old. She holds a brilliant amethyst crystal instead of river rocks, like in the original photo. Uloang said the idea came to him when he was sketching, and when he shared his drawing with Maranda's mom, she had a visceral reaction."She told me that when she saw that it was amethyst crystal in the sketch, she got chills," he said.
Overseeing the portrait project is Abel Ortiz, who teaches art at a Uvalde college. As the project's creator, his idea was to make the 21 murals monumental. "At that moment, I knew that God was going to use me," Maldonado said."I didn't know how, but I knew that I would be involved in some way in the journey of healing for Uvalde."
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