On a boom lift, Paola Delfin brings to life the figures of "Nabḍ," her monumental mural at the Beirut Digital District. (Credit: Rayanne Tawil/L’Orient-Le Jour)
After Jounieh and Tripoli, Paola Delfin has brought new faces to the walls of Beirut. On a façade of the Beirut Digital District (BDD), as the road turns off the ring road toward the Beshara al-Khoury intersection, a woman painted by the Mexican muralist gazes beyond the trees. Other figures emerge around her, with a child appearing at the bottom of the mural. Rendered in black, white and gray, these monumental figures bring Lebanese lives into the city’s landscape.The work marks a new chapter in a journey that began in Mexico City and has taken her across five continents before she found a foothold in Lebanon — a country she thought she would visit for just two weeks.Learning to paint in her own wayAt 37, Paola Delfin has turned walls around the world into canvases. She grew up in Mexico City and has been painting since childhood,...
After Jounieh and Tripoli, Paola Delfin has brought new faces to the walls of Beirut. On a façade of the Beirut Digital District (BDD), as the road turns off the ring road toward the Beshara al-Khoury intersection, a woman painted by the Mexican muralist gazes beyond the trees. Other figures emerge around her, with a child appearing at the bottom of the mural. Rendered in black, white and gray, these monumental figures bring Lebanese lives into the city’s landscape.The work marks a new chapter in a journey that began in Mexico City and has taken her across five continents before she found a foothold in Lebanon — a country she thought she would visit for just two weeks.Learning to paint in her own wayAt 37, Paola Delfin has turned walls around the world into canvases. She grew up in Mexico City and has been painting since...
