Walls have always been an instrument of division, and there are places which have made of walls real boundaries, frontiers. In Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories walls are major presences, they are the frontline of a situation of forced, painful coexistence.
Walls here are used not only to physically separate, but also to reaffirm religious and ethnic divisions, to denounce abuses and glorify heroes and flags. Walls on which to pray and to write, walls to challenge or to lean to. Old and new walls that have the power to separate from what is on the other side.
In this land separation is so marked that sometime even an uniform, a net, a piece of glass, a look may have the weight of tons of bricks.
Walls and separations that people can spend a life trying to tear apart, also simply writing on them an irreverent advice, that is also a cry for hope: “make hummus not walls”.