cannot be reversed
By Tal Silver
28 Jun 2009
"This is anybody's town", "Just Forgive", "Revolution is you!" - those are the signs around Jerusalem you'll find if you look carefully. My friend took me on a tour to the little, some even unknown, streets and alleys to just hunt for those diverse graffiti paintings.
On our two hour journey of finding out different outlooks, we also got to talk a lot about the things of our lives. I love to spend time with people that will challenge me to grow.
Many graffiti artworks are just writings. Typography is a very powerful tool, each word contains a degree of power in it, a power to destroy or a power to create it is a huge manipulation instrument. When it's in the right hands, in some way we loose it in the acceptance of the truth. Perhaps we feel more comfortable when we hear a lie, because it is wrapped in a colorful gift package.
Jerusalem City never stops, not even for a moment. The orthodox can throw words like "Goy!" when seeing me passing with my camera on Sabbath and the next moment have a mob of protesters because of municipality opening a parking lot near the religious neighborhood on Sabbath.
There is much energy in this city, positive as well as negative. It causes people to act in a way they never did before, it activates something in you and if you are not prepared the results can be surprising.
Everyone has an opinion on how Jerusalem is to be chopped, how many pieces to how many nations, who is going to have the last word. Jerusalem is just carving for you to listen to her, she has a History that cannot be changed nor the Future that cannot be reversed.
