Spray paint to raise awareness of the hopes and dreams of the homeless

Spray paint can be used not just in car polish, but it can also be used in many areas like walls or any other places that you can not image. Especially in America, it is often reported that many crimes committed related to spray paint like graffiti on walls or cars, but here is an impressive thing that using spray paint to raise awareness of the hopes and dreams of the homeless.

There are some sentences spray painted on walls that most shocking: A warm bed to sleep in, a teddy bear to snuggle with, or a piece of candy corn to munch on because it’s nearly Halloween—those are just some of the everyday wishes of homeless people that street artist Skid Robot is helping make come true. At least, they’re coming true through art. In hopes of sparking compassion for people who live on the street, the Los Angeles–based artist has been spray-painting their hopes and dreams around them. And there are still many homeless people hand around on the street.

Methods should be come up with to deal this problem. The artist, who has his roots in graffiti, began drawing humanizing scenes around homeless individuals after spending time in Los Angeles’ Skid Row area. He’s been posting the images on his account since last November, drawing hundreds of likes from empathetic fans on social media. This behavior has got many attentions from other people.

The artist said that he wanted to do something different other than, write crew or write his name. He was cruising around Skid Row one night with his girlfriend. “In all honesty, she was the one who suggested I go out and paint it,” Skid Robot told Vice, “After the first one, which was the woman dreaming of the dollar signs, it was like a fire in me. So that night, I probably did about four or five drawings.”

The number of homeless people is very large. It’s estimated that more than 3,500 people sleep on the streets and shelters of the 50-block section of Downtown Los Angeles. In September 2013, homeless teen James Ward made headlines for managing to get into Howard University despite living on Skid Row. The mental illness and addiction that disproportionately affect the homeless population, happy-ending stories like Ward’s are few and far between.

To genuinely help the people he is drawing art around, Skid Robot began making them care packages full of snacks and toiletries. Now he’s also launched a campaign to raise $10,000 to film a documentary that will “tell the stories of the desperate dreamers across the U.S. who is experiencing homelessness.” The artist believes critics who think the art project is exploiting folks who are down-and-out are missing the point.

After reading this report, you must be shocking and feel sympathy for those homeless. Luckily, painting an image can help people reflect upon things and make people stop and look at the homeless person that they've walked by a thousand times. Those homeless are suffering from miserable things while we are enjoying ourselves in comfortable room with room freshener! What we should do is to give a hand to those poor people.