Pomegranate

by Rosário Teixeira

Watertown, MA - In 1996 Peace of Art creator and founder, the artist Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, began to display the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards in Watertown, MA. Each year the billboard message has consistently called for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Since 2004, Peace of Art, Inc., has sponsored the Armenian Genocide billboards.

During the month of April 2008, the billboards will be displayed at the intersection of Arsenal and School Streets and on Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, MA. At the center of the word genocide there is the image of a ripe pomegranate cut in half.

The pomegranate represents Armenia and it is the symbol of life and fertility. On April 24 1915, when Armenian culture was going through a resurgence, the lives of 1.5 million Armenians, poets and intellectuals were cut short in the events which were marked as the Armenian Genocide.

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