October
26, 2014
All
of the 2nd grade students created a Kids’ Guernica peace painting at
Kubo Junior High School in Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan and it
was displayed at their School Culture Festival. At first, nine drafts which had
gained more votes were selected among all the students. They composed a peace
painting with these nine drafts and divided it into 150 parts. Each of the137
students and some teachers painted a peace image on each part. The whole
painting expressed their strong wish for peace as well as each painting on all
the parts of it. In the process of making the huge painting, they shared their
own idea on peace.
From the beginning, they thought and thought about peace and
their ideas on peace were transformed into a huge peace painting. Finally, they
could complete it and show it to many people on the day of School Culture Festival.
Students and parents could appreciate not only the whole painting but also its
each part.
It was a good opportunity to understand other students’ opinions
about peace. Some parts of the painting didn’t seem to match colors. However, this
is exactly an interesting point of this project as each different painting by
all the participants composes a huge image of peace.
