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Warriors Zulu, Honduras
Ik’moo is a collective of young girls from Chamelecón united by art and hope. It all began in the painting workshops of the Warriors Cultural House, where they met by “chance” and, moved by the desire to share and express themselves, they decided to form their own mural collective.
At first, they just wanted to get together to paint and continue practicing. But in one of the workshops, a facilitator told them about her experience in an art collective. From there, something changed: they researched, discovered other collectives in Honduras and understood that art can also inhabit public space, inspire, transform and heal communities.
The experience of volunteering in small festivals and workshops of Casa Warriors showed them how, through collective work, it is possible to create culture and community ties. Thus was born their first mural as a collective, a work located on the wall of the Modesto Rodas Alvarado Institute, in a very busy spot, but marked by the invisible borders of violence.
The mural speaks of the bond that unites women from different contexts, generations and roots. For them, it was much more than an artistic intervention: it was a way to cross those borders, to create a safe and collective space, and to show that it is possible to imagine and build a new Chamelecón through art and encounter.
Seeing neighbors, girls, young people and passersby stop to look, reflect and share what they felt was profoundly transforming. As they themselves say:
“It was our way of saying: here we are, and we also have something to contribute”.