Art | The Desert

May 13th, 2010 by mmlindsey

Beautifying the Barrio: Promise

Photo by Garrett Larson We made beauty from ashes this week. Thirteen incredible souls chose to brave the border war and to partake in what to many seemed insane. With inquisitive eyes and perplexed neighbors in the streets above, we gathered garbage from the arrollo that runs into our backyard, the one that used to [...]

May 11th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey

Beautifying the Barrio: Beauty

Inspiration has surged into our lives this week, steady and strong like these unfaltering desert winds moving across the desert. It has been an outstanding week, a profound testament blazing in the face of fear and twisted perceptions, and the undeclared reality of Juarez has been revealed: That she is hungry, capable, and rising. We [...]

May 10th, 2010 by mmlindsey

Beautifying the Barrio: Life

It was breathtaking to behold, sobering to witness: the power of passionate lives bursting from the dust and sprinting towards life. It is something that cannot be tamed, the innermost part of our hearts being poured out into the streets of Juarez, morphing the buckets of dusty garbage into glimmering collages of beauty right before [...]

May 8th, 2010 by mmlindsey

Beautifying the Barrio: Color

Color splashed over the floors and walls dripping from every face. Joy, messy and untamed, bursting out in laughter and shimmering eyes wide and hopeful. Through painting and mosaic on reclaimed wood and stone, discarded plastic bottles and tar paper, we all created, side by side. The past two days have been saturated with sharing [...]

May 7th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey

Beautifying the Barrio: Hope in Action

The face of hope is breathtaking to behold, particularly in a place which has been regarded as a dying city and a failed state. But it is here, in the abandoned desert, where I have had encounters with love and the extraordinary. This perplexing city has been a catalyst impressing me to embrace the crux [...]

May 6th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey

A new day for Juarez

Photo by Dallas Palmer He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence. Isaiah 6:8 Since moving here to the desert, every day more and more blood has been shed on the dusty streets of our city. We have seen a [...]

April 30th, 2010 by mmlindsey

Juarez Children’s Art Project – Beautifying the Barrio

Ciudad Juarez has been labeled a dying and lost city. So many have abandoned hope, discarding it like the plastic bags that dance in the spring wind. The undercurrent of cold-hearted violence and death has overwhelmed any good news that sprouts up in our city. Journalists and authors focus on the crime and ugliness, their [...]

February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey

Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color

The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]