Greetings, my name is Kordell Green, a class of 2025 graduate from Morehouse College, born and raised in Washington, DC. This summer I had the wonderful opportunity to intern with the Aisling Project, through Arcadia Abroad. The following images are the finished results of a two-day mural project that I completed with the children in the Sillogue location of the Aisling Project.

Aisling Project
The Aisling project is an after-school initiative working in the Ballymun area of Dublin, Ireland. The initiative works with 80 young people aged from 8-to-13 years. The main aims of the Aisling Project is to prevent early school leaving, benefit the community and advance education by running an after-school intervention project for children at risk, and provide purposeful activity in a caring, secure environment.

Mural Design
During this project, both the younger age group and the older age group got the chance to work on one of the walls. The kids got a chance to paint every part of the mural, doing this was important because it allowed for the kids to have full artistic control over the piece and let their imagination flow.

Features
At first glance, the most noticeable feature of the artwork is the giant butterfly wings on the right side of each wall. The butterfly wing is an important component to the project because the organization's logo is a butterfly. For the piece, I wanted it to incorporate different aspects of the organization, so including the organization's logo in the piece somewhere was an important factor. The second important factor is that the name of the organization is in the piece as well. If you look vertically, both walls have one part of the organization's name on the wall. Once you identify the vertical words “aisling project”, you immediately notice that there are words associated with each letter of the vertical words. The horizontal words are all positive and encouraging words that the children can reflect upon. The goal is to give kids positive affirmations that can be attributed to one's character.