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Interesting works of art appear in Mill Road Cemetary on Saturday night!

Cameraboy | 04.08.2014 21:47 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | Cambridge | World

On Saturday night in Cambridge's Mill Road Cemetary some temporary artworks spelling out the word "Gaza" appeared - then disappeared again.

Version one of the "Gaza" piece, the largest at about 30ft wide.
Version one of the "Gaza" piece, the largest at about 30ft wide.

Lighting up...
Lighting up...

...to create a circle of light in the gloom.
...to create a circle of light in the gloom.

An island of illumination.
An island of illumination.

Sublime light!
Sublime light!

Reconfiguring the lights to make...
Reconfiguring the lights to make...

...Version two of the "Gaza" piece, about 10ft wide.
...Version two of the "Gaza" piece, about 10ft wide.

What to do with the leftovers...
What to do with the leftovers...


A small team of local activists repeated on a much smaller scale Friday night's candle piece by spelling out the word "Gaza" in light as a positive, creative response to the overwhelmingly negative, destructive forces on the other side of the world.

The largest version of the piece was about 30ft wide, with the second, more compact version being a mere 10ft across.

The Cemetary is absolutely pitch black at night with hardly any light pollution from the surrounding streets due to thick screens of trees, so the candles seemed to glow even brighter like little stars, which heightened the dramatic visual impact.

If anything can be ascertained from this action (aside from the artworks themselves which only a handfull of people directly witnessed, including a couple of dog walkers), it is that even a small group of people can come together to try and be a force for good.

If only the so-called leaders of the world would also follow this example and pile the pressure on Israel to stop the massacre in Gaza.

Cameraboy

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What a wate of time

05.08.2014 07:01

Some people have too much time on their hands

Unbelievable

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You light candles in cemeteries

05.08.2014 07:55

... while Hamas launch missiles from cemeteries:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hmU2GUxUs

Muppetwatch
- Homepage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hmU2GUxUs

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Naysayers!

05.08.2014 11:51

Ah yes, the armchair critics, who prefer to belittle the the REAL WORLD ACTIONS of others who genuinely care about their fellow HUMANS, because they are too lazy and cynical (or perhaps afraid) to do anything positive and empowering themselves.

Thankfully we are not all like them.



Actual Activist.

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Look up

07.08.2014 08:35

Look up "idiotic" in a dictionary and it refers you to crap like this.

Meanwhile Gaza burns, words fail me at the time wasted by idiots like this.

Dictionary boy

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