Like that happens6:00Artists make watercolors of lost houses in the fires of Los Angeles
Jordan Heber cannot give up their house to people, so she does her best.
This woman from Los Angeles paints free watercolors for people from their homes destroyed during recent fires for free. And she is not alone.
“It’s about immortalizing something they have lost,” said Heber. Like that happens Nile Köksal host. “You cannot give them back. But it is almost, in a way, an attempt to do it.”
The fires that ravaged Los Angeles last month have killed more than two dozen people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures, According to Cal Fire.
“It brought a light of light”
When to host for the first time posted his idea on Tiktok, She thought she was receiving requests from a handful of people on her own social circle.
“And then it took off. It became viral and I was amazed,” she said.
HEBER, who works full -time as a brand strategist, says that she was flooded with requests, some from people who have lost their house, others seeking to have watercolors made for their friends and family members who have lost theirs.
She said on Wednesday that she had produced three watercolors so far and that she was working on around 25 others, giving priority to the requests of people directly affected by fires.
But the first she made was not at all a house.
“They set out and said, you know, I am a teacher here and we lost school, and it is simply devastating that these children have nowhere to go to school. It was So touching to hear and I wanted to help, “she said.
The teacher, she said, was extremely grateful for the table.
“She said that she had been taken to tears, roughly, and that she was so happy and that it brought her a light of light.”
Each image tells a story
Heber, he says that she was inspired by the action by an Instagram publication of another Los Angeles artist Who offered to draw sketches for free people from people’s houses.
Like Heber, Asher Bingham says that she only expected her message to reach friends and friends of friends.
“I said to myself, if I made 10, if I made 20 houses, it would be such a gift,” Bingham told CBC.
Two weeks later, she received more than 1,000 requests and it is not over.
“It’s a mixture of emotions. It’s happy. It’s sad. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful,” she said. “They want to share these memories, and therefore, attached to these photos, come from small presentation texts and sentences … which explain the example of the loss of their house.”
A person, she said, told him how his father had fled his house so quickly, the only thing he had managed to do was to get out of it. He no longer had his shoes on the feet.
Another wrote that she had given birth in the hospital when her house had burned completely.
“Really very heartbreaking stories,” said Bingham.
But her most intimate sketch, she said, was the first, which she had drawn for a friend who married Las Vegas when the fires broke out.
Bingham managed to save the cat’s cats the day before that the flames clunned the house.
“I woke up the next morning with the message. You know, she sent a photo of the devastation and there was nothing left,” said Bingham.
“And I didn’t know what to say … You lost your first house on your wedding day. There are no words for that. And so I said to myself, I can draw her house.”
A designer brings together a team
As requests accumulated, Bingham quickly realized that if she wanted to do them all, she would need help. She therefore launched an appeal on social networks.
She now has people who help her in her field and organize requests as they arrive. She shares work with 17 other artists, who all give volunteer their time and work. A local printing house prints them free of charge. Another person donated shipping costs.
“The people who came out of scratch to help us. It’s just extraordinary,” she said.
She also saw other people doing similar things, such as an artist drawing pet portraits who died in the fire, or someone who proposed to recreate destroyed courtes.
“In Los Angeles, we do not hear happy messages all the time. We always hear about politics, crying, broken and stolen things and, you know, how horrible people are in these neighborhoods, in these neighborhoods, “said Bingham. .
“There are very good humans here and they intensify their efforts, which is very nice.”
HEBER, says that she can close her eyes and imagine a future where someone moves into her house and hooks one of her watercolors from her old house.
“We are obsessed with instant gratuity these days. And for me, it is the opposite. It is delayed, prolonged or continuous, like a feeling of heat each time you go there,” She declared.
“And the fact that I can one day bring this to someone’s new house is very special. And I am very grateful to have the opportunity to do so.”
