Created for URBX festival

This is the Statue of Liberty.

A gift from France to the U.S. — a celebration of friendship, and given in the name of Independence Day, a day meant to honor the right to freedom for all.

But today, that freedom feels out of reach. Not for everyone. Not for migrants. Not for those pushed to the margins, silenced, or unseen.

In Roubaix, a city with one of France’s largest migrant populations, I painted her covering her eyes, because the weight of the world has become too heavy to witness.

What was once a shining symbol of liberty now carries the sorrow of lost meaning.

The project was finished on July 4th, Independence Day. A quiet reminder of what freedom should be.

SIDENOTE: the image used appeared to have a lot of resemblance with a classic Gee Vaucher design.