Art-Project for streetchildren Rio de Janeiro 5 april 2008. On the main cultural square of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro, AbrahamArt produced and sponsored "2 sides of Sao Martino children". Sao Martino is the biggest shelter for streetchildren wich is a serious problem in Rio de Janeiro. AbrahamArt invited 2 of the most famous brazilian grafitti artists Smael and Izolag to make a 15 m heigh (!) artwork showing the tense between the happy infantil side that the children (should) have and the confrontating circumstances they live in. He wore shorts so large that could hardly stay fit on the hips, and that little boy crossed the street in a hurry, among cars in movement. The filthy and bare feet hardly touched that heated road. He looked nervously to all sides. What was that that the boy was searching for? Was he looking for the little blue horses that once lived in his dreams? Or was he searching for amazing creatures? Or still could he be running away from absolutely not scary colorful monsters? The works from Smael and Izolag lay their eyes from different angles on this boy, who the Sint Martinus Foundation knows so well. Izolag shows their faces, smiles and looks and reveals the poetry hidden in the reality of these experienced young faces. Smael opens the doors of an incredible world of fantastic creatures that inhabit every child’s imaginary world. And together these too artists build the bridge that will lead the boy to his childhood dream. In Lapa, daily stage of scenes like the one described above, these young artists will open a window of beauty and art that will marvel every passerby. This panel will also pay homage to the Sint Martinus Foundation, institution that builds every day this bridge of hope to the future of hundreds of children. By Samara Reijnders