The little migrant with the report card sewn into his pocket lives again in Jorit's new work…
The Neapolitan street artist painted it on a building 4 floors in Palma Campania.
It has at least the dignity of a face that migrant child drowned in the Mediterranean with the report card sewn in his pocket. His story had moved the web and now the hopeful gaze of the 14-year-old who left Mali in search of a better life, lives again in a maxi mural created by Jorit.
The Neapolitan street artist painted it on a building 4 floors in Palma Campania. He even gave it a name “Stay”, “which in Swahili language means “remain” – explains the artist to la Repubblica – to claim the right of everyone to remain in their own land without being exploited by other peoples, the right to contribute to the development of one's country without being slaves”…
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