“21ST CENTURY ODYSSEY”
by DaCruz
"We need more than ever to make a new common iconography. What better place than the street, this open-air museum, to bring people together through art?" —DaCruz
For nearing two decades DaCruz has been transforming the public spaces of his native Ourcq-Villette neighborhood in Paris's 19th arrondissement. In 2013 DaCruz created the Cultures Pas Sages association to expand his goal of highlighting and supporting the cultural diversity of the community and every year since he has hosted the annual @OurcqLivingColors festival. Inspired by his extensive travels through Brazil, Africa, and Palestine, DaCruz's work has been influenced by pre-Columbian masks and other elements of ancestral cultures, and for the 2015 festival he added this composition at the corner of Rue Germaine Tailleferre and Rue des Ardennes. @dacruzgraffiti/
