Story Category: Walls tell a Story
As the political movement began to grow, so people discovered new tools to use to make their voices heard. City walls became a political canvas, with stencil art, posters, graffiti, bloody handprints producing a multi-layered wall hanging. Nightly, state services would come out and paint over much of the day’s work, only for new slogans to have appeared by morning.

Walls tell a Story
As the political movement began to grow, so people discovered new tools to use to make their voices heard. City walls became a political canvas, with stencil art, posters, graffiti and bloody handprints producing a multi-layered wall covering. Nightly, during the curfew, state services would come out and paint over the day’s work, only for Read more…
View Walls tell a StoryBuildings as Canvas
Buildings themselves became incorporated into the political struggle. Mosques sported revolutionary slogans and portraits of Khomeini. University buildings were used to tell a longer and more complex history of political activity.
View Buildings as Canvas