These artists make free paintings and graphics for the homes of people who were lost in Los Angeles fires

Jordan Heber cannot restore their homes, so she does the best you can do.

A woman from Los Angeles draws pictures of people’s watercolors – free of charge – for their homes that were destroyed in the last fires. It is not alone.

Heber said: “It is the perpetuation of something they lost.” As it happens The host Neil Coxsal. “You can’t return it to them. But it is almost trying it somehow.”

The fires that swept Los Angeles during the past month More than twenty people have killed and destroyed more than 16,000 buildings, According to Calfire.

“I brought a glimmer of light”

When Heber first Her idea was published on Tikkok, She thought she would receive requests from a few people in her own social circle.

And she said, “After that, the matter started. It spread widely, and stunned me,” she said.

Heber, who works full -time as a brand strategy expert, says she has received a flood of requests, some of them people who have lost their homes, while others are looking to get water colors made for their friends and family members who lost their homes.

On Wednesday, she said it has completed three waterboards so far, and is working on about 25 other panels, while giving priority to the requests of people who were directly affected by fires.

But the first thing I did was not at all.

“They contacted me and said, as you know, I am a teacher here and we lost the school, and it is destroyed that these children have no place to go at school. He heard it was very impressive and wanted to say:” Help. “

She says the teacher was very grateful for this painting.

“She said she caused, and she was very happy, and he brought a glimmer of light.”

Every picture tells a story

Heber says she was an inspiration to work By Instagram from another artist from Los Angeles Who offered the drawing of sketches for people’s homes for free.

And like Heber, Asher Bingham says she expected her post only to friends and friends of friends.

“I was saying, if I built 10 homes, or 20 homes, this will be a gift,” Bingham told CBC.

After two weeks, I received more than 1000 requests and the number is still increasing.

“It is a mixed collection of feelings. It is happy. It’s sad. It is tragic. It’s beautiful,” she said. “They want to share these memories, and therefore, accompanied by these pictures, small phrases and sentences explain the state of losing their house.”

She says that someone told her how her father fled his home so quickly, which is the only thing that he succeeded in Abroad the shoe was on his feet.

Another wrote about her birth in the hospital while her house was completely burned.

“Indeed, painful stories of the heart,” Bingham said.

But her most intimate drawing, she says, was the first she drew to her friend, who would have been married in Las Vegas when the fires erupted.

Bingham managed to save the women’s cats the day before the fire was burned at home.

“I woke up the next morning to the text message. As you know, I sent a picture of the destruction, and nothing remains,” Pingham said.

“I didn’t know what to say … I lost your first home on the day I got married. There are no words that express it. So I was saying, I can draw her home.”

A drawing artist brings together a team

With the accumulation of requests, Bingham quickly realized that if she wanted to make all these requests, she will need help. So she made a call on social media.

She now has people who help her in her field and organize requests when they are received. She divides work with 17 other artists, all of whom volunteer with their time and work. One of the local presses prints it for free. Another person has donated shipping costs.

She said: “The people who left the wooden work to help us. It is extraordinary.”

She has also seen others who do similar things, such as an artist drawing pictures of the pets that died in the fire, or a person of the re -creation of the destroyed craft.

“In Los Angeles, we don’t hear happy messages all the time. We always hear about politics, crying and things that are broken and stolen, as you know, how far people are in these neighborhoods, in those neighborhoods,” said Bingham. .

“There are really good people here and they are progressing, which is very great.”

Heber says she can close her eyes and imagine the future as someone moves to his home and hangs one of her old waterboards.

She said: “We are obsessed with immediate gratification these days. This is for me the opposite. It is late, long or continuous, like feeling warm every time you go.”

“The fact that I am able to bring it to the new person’s home is one day very special. I am very grateful to allow me to do this.”