Corpn. launches street art project

In a bid to spruce up public places in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation has begun painting walls. It began the street art project by painting the compound wall of the Central Zone office on Huzur

In a bid to spruce up public places in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation has begun painting walls. It began the street art project by painting the compound wall of the Central Zone office on Huzur Road. On the stretch of the wall between the main gate and the Coimbatore South MLA’s office, the Corporation, by engaging Chennai-based Catalyst Art Foundation, has painted images capturing activities in ancient Tamil life. The Foundation’s programme director K. Phanikumar said images of weaving basket, planting paddy, making pot, milking cow, harvesting cane, playing drums and a few more formed part of the street art. And, there was an image showing the evolution of the Tamil script as well It took an artist five days to complete the wall painting. Even as the artist was going about painting the wall, the project had a good reception, he added. “A woman stopped by to say that the image of weaving basket reflected exactly how she would weave basket,” Mr. Phanikumar recalled and added that a day after painting a few children and parents stopped by to look at the paintings.