Eliminating Mental Health Taboos Using Wall Art

Sant Boi, a town in Spain known for its huge mental health hospital is seeking to eliminate mental health taboos using graffiti. For many years after the hospital was founded in 1855, the small community has been subject to discrimination for being known as the town with the "crazy" people. Artists are trying to break the silence surrounding taboos of mental health by "re-graffiti-ing" the wall that separates the hospital from the other parts of town. Before, the wall had been covered with messy scribbles and words. Now, they cleared the walls and painted carpets with interesting designs as a way to invite people to the other side.



Out of all the things these artists could've drawn, why choose carpets? What's significant about a carpet draping over a wall? How do these carpets metaphorically try to invite townspeople in and patients out to the town?

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  2. When I think of a mental health hospital, I think of white, gray, just overall bland rooms. The artists’ use of graffiti is to introducing color into the patient's world. The reason I think they use carpets because carpets is a way welcome someone into a house. For example people usually have welcome mats or carpets when people enter the house. The artist view the town as their home and this is their way to welcome the patients into the town.

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    1. going off of what you said, i as well thought that the carpets were a welcoming sign for the town to its visitors and patients. the colors are also very bright and warm, therefore acknowledging patients and letting them know that they are represented and seen in their town. I thought this article was very interesting because i had never heard of this town or movement before.

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