An art intervention with kids from Syrian refugee camp in Bar-Ilias , lebanon. Exhibited at p21 Gallery in London to raise funds for yehia settlement. Migrating Letters is a collaborative work with refugee children where play and art intermingle in beautiful splashes of paint and calligraphic verses. The verses are taken from “My Friends” a poem by famed Lebanese poet Elia Abou Madi, and are a juxtaposition of both a collective recognition of suffering and a collective force of resilience, from Lebanon, to Syria, to the world. the poem is added in calligraphy on giant canvases painted by the children and then cropped into more than fifty pieces. The intention is for these canvases to spread to new places, for the calligraphic letters to migrate, carrying the voices of migrant children all over the globe.

Content :
”In Lebanon a yearning for what / knew
In your faces, a light / see
Shining from the hills of my country
I see ghosts of years gone
In struggle, strife, and loss
I see shadows of a time to come
Like the sun rising from behind a veil
Translated Extracts from My Friends
by Lebanese poet” -Elia Abu Madi.