Responses

Peter Sis

"I started to do some doodles and sketches and came up with the idea of this curious man spreading his arms and looking at the world. But it was more like a doodle, so I didn’t really think it would work for the wall. However, Tsipi has this vision and she said, “Why don’t we combine your curious man with the pictures created by the children from around the world and place them in the spaces between the faces which act as windows.” That’s really how this design came together.

The ideas of the children are the best…but there were so many of them that we had to come up with some sort of drawing or design to combine as many as we could together on the Peace Wall.

Peter Sis
Artist

Kids at Peace Wall, Manhattan

"As the kids within the neighborhood grow up they can have something to look at and enjoy rather than looking at graffiti or defaced walls. I feel that the mosaic brings a great deal of positive energy to the neighborhood. I enjoyed working on the piece; now I can actually show people how I have physically contributed to my community.

“The best thing about this project is how the entire community was involved in building it. A product of the environment, the CITYarts mosaic will continue to be a symbol of growth, unity, and stability in our neighborhoods.”

Antonia Singleton, 16
Frederick Douglass High School

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Kids at Peace Wall, Pakistan

"The mosaic was a refreshing experience, an experience which makes you proud of yourself. It makes you realize that there is so much you can do for this world and makes you feel proud of it. It makes me proud because I contributed towards making my country better looking and beautiful and maybe what I did was not even a drop in the bucket – but it still counts. It has affected me in a very strange way – it has made me think about things other than myself."

Saba Zaman, 16
The Lyceum School, Karachi, Pakistan

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