Video: Je t'aime and I love you: Parisian wall "I love you" and 311 declarations of love in different languages of the world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On the eve of spring, when each of us is sure to expect a miracle, the theme of love is more relevant than ever. Perhaps, you will not find a more romantic place than Paris on the planet, so it is not surprising that it was here in 2000 that the wall "I love you" (mur des je taime), on which numerous declarations of love are written. It resembles a blackboard, with the cherished words in 311 languages of the world drawn in "chalk".
The idea to set up a 40-square-meter board in one of the parks not far from the bustling Montmartre, on which original "autographs" are placed, turned out to be very successful. Its creators are artists Frederic Baron and Claire Kito. Having started to perpetuate the brightest feeling, they got down to business with all responsibility: Frederick went around all the neighboring houses and asked people about how they confess their love. After he managed to assemble an impressive collection in different languages, the artist Quito inscribed the inscriptions in different handwritings.
Frederic Baron himself, commenting on the idea of creating an unusual wall, notes that the red "fragments" scattered among the inscriptions symbolize the broken heart of all mankind, which, thanks to the cherished words of love, can be reassembled. Tourists traveling around Paris come to look at this "amorous" wall, but those who happen to visit it on Valentine's Day are in for a pleasant surprise: every year on this day white doves are released into the sky.
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