American artist Jason Stoneking has launched an initiative on Facebook to paint satellite dishes with bright colors on the roofs of buildings in Cairo to beautify the city skyline.
“I think the millions of dishes on the roofs of buildings can be turned into something beautiful,” he told Sky News on Tuesday.
The Cairo Dish-Painting Initiative was a project launched by Stoneking in Fall 2014 in cooperation with Artellewa as a part of his artist residency, according to its Facebook page.
"It was inspired by a conversation with Egyptian artist Hany Hommos on his balcony in Cairo, when he said that the endless sea of dirty brown satellite dishes made the skyline depressing to look at," said the profile.
"The hope is that this idea would catch on and spread across Cairo. That the citizens of this vibrant city would help brighten their skyline, and announce to the world that the signals of hope, happiness, and free expression are the ones that they want to receive," it concluded.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
