Introduction to Project Wallflowers & PAU Quintanajornet, a contemporary artist and artivista
Art of Pau
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PROJECT WALLFLOWERS
Our Mission is to carry the colors into the world.
Project Wallflowers is a living, evolving platform where art, community, and resilience meet. Inspired by the German word Mauerblümchen—“wallflower”—the project embraces those often overlooked or underestimated, much like the small but resilient flowers that grow through cracks in walls. Gentle in appearance, yet powerful in presence, flowers remind us that beauty, resistance, and transformation can emerge even in the hardest places.
Even the smallest blossom has the strength to crack open concrete, to break through a wall that once seemed unshakable. Project Wallflowers embraces this lesson not only for our cities but for our inner landscapes: the walls we build in our own minds—of fear, silence, or separation—can also be softened and broken open by creativity, empathy, and color. In this way, every act of art becomes a flower: a quiet, persistent force that makes space for light, for connection, and for new beginnings.
Project Wallflowers understands itself as an artivist initiative—a practice where art is not only a form of expression but a bridge for dialogue, exchange, and community building. Murals become collective voices, workshops spark new ways of thinking, and gatherings around art open spaces for empathy and solidarity. Here, creativity is not separate from life: it is a tool to weave people together, to reimagine shared futures, and to remind us of the beauty of simply blooming side by side.
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About the Artist & Artivista Pau Quintanajornet
At the heart of Project Wallflowers is PAU Quintanajornet, a contemporary artist and artivista whose work bridges muralism, studio work,community-based art, and cultural storytelling. Rooted in Latin American traditions yet shaped by years of international collaborations, Pau explores the symbolic language of flowers, birds, and colors as vessels of memory, healing, and resistance.
As an artivista, Pau believes that art is more than an object—it is an action, a meeting point, and a form of care. Walls become canvases for collective voices, workshops become spaces of empowerment, and artistic gestures grow into movements that connect people across borders.
With Project Wallflowers, Pau Quintanajornet carries forward a vision where creativity becomes a force of humanity: gentle as petals, yet strong enough to break through concrete.
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Programs of Project Wallflowers
The Blooming Seeds
Every flower begins as a seed, carrying the potential to grow against all odds. The Blooming Seeds focuses on nurturing creativity in young people, giving them tools to express their voices through art, color, and collective imagination. Through workshops and school-based projects, it plants the first sparks of resilience and belonging, reminding the next generation that they too can bloom and reshape the world around them.
De Flores y Canto
In many traditions, flowers and song are intertwined—symbols of beauty, memory, and resistance. De Flores y Canto celebrates this union by weaving poetry, music, and visual art into spaces of cultural storytelling. It honors ancestral knowledge and living traditions, creating bridges between past and present while highlighting the power of art as a communal language.
Stay with Humanity
A call for compassion in times of division. Stay with Humanity brings art into humanitarian dialogues, addressing themes of migration, justice, and solidarity. Through murals, performances, and collaborative actions, it stands as a gentle yet firm reminder of our shared responsibility to remain human and to carry empathy into public life.
Sobre-Mesas
In Latin America, the sobremesa is the lingering time around the table after a meal, where stories flow and bonds deepen. This program transforms that spirit into a practice of community building: intimate gatherings where art, conversation, and exchange create trust and collective imagination. Sobre-Mesas shows that change often begins not on the stage but at the table, in the quiet strength of dialogue.
C.A.LL.E. — Carretera Austral Llenando Espacios
C.A.LL.E. was born on the legendary roads of Patagonia, where distances are vast and communities often feel remote. Its name—Carretera Austral Llenando Espacios—carries the vision of filling forgotten or overlooked spaces with color, dialogue, and presence. One of its most emblematic actions was painting a church together with the local community, transforming not only the building but also the bonds among neighbors. C.A.LL.E. shows that even in the most faraway landscapes, art can bloom as a bridge of connection, turning isolation into belonging and silence into shared expression.
The Color Wood Movement
Born from experimentation and play, The Color Wood Movement was one of the earliest Wallflowers interventions alongside mural-making. Using skateboards as unconventional paintbrushes, children and young people dipped wheels into color and rolled them across wooden panels, transforming motion into vibrant abstract marks. The result: large color-charged surfaces that carry the joy, freedom, and collective spirit of the action itself. More than an artwork, it is an invitation to reimagine tools, reclaim playfulness, and engage communities through movement, laughter, and color.
Together, the branches of Project Wallflowers form a living garden of creativity, resilience, and connection. Each program—whether planting the first seeds of imagination, giving voice through song and storytelling, filling vessels with blooming flowers, bringing color to remote landscapes, or transforming movement into abstract expression—reminds us that every act of art carries the power to break walls, nurture growth, and spark dialogue. Like flowers that bloom through cracks in concrete, Wallflowers blossoms wherever there is space for care, curiosity, and courage. This garden is not only a celebration of beauty, but also a call to action: to recognize, honor, and cultivate the stories, potential, and creativity that exist in every individual and community.
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Blómstr — Finland, Ekenäs Gymnasium
The word Blómstr comes from Scandinavian languages and means “to bloom”. In the context of Project Wallflowers, it embodies the idea that every person carries a unique inner world—a vessel filled with potential, creativity, and stories waiting to be expressed. By inviting participants to shape and bloom their own flowers, Blómstr becomes a celebration of empowerment: a reminder that even the quietest voices have the strength to grow, shine, and make an impact in their communities.
Blómstr is a living exploration of the idea that we are all vessels, carrying stories waiting to bloom. Developed with ART Bubble at Ekenäs Gymnasium in Finland, this project invited teenagers to create their own vessels—each a personal container representing their identity, inner world, and potential. Through the flowers they crafted to fill these vessels, participants revealed intimate reflections, insights, and moments of self-discovery, transforming private experiences into shared, visible symbols of growth and resilience.
In addition to the vessels, we painted a mural for the school, a vibrant patchwork of blooming flowers in the signature Wallflowers style. This colorful mural now breathes life into the space, inviting students to inhale its energy, immerse themselves in its patterns, and remember that each of them holds a story worth telling. Blómstr is both a personal and collective celebration: a reminder to nurture the vessel within, and to allow one’s inner flowers to bloom, connecting self-awareness with community, creativity, and color.
As part of the De Flores y Canto branch, Blómstr continues Project Wallflowers’ mission of using art as a bridge for reflection, dialogue, and emotional connection, showing how symbolic acts of creation—whether vessels, flowers, or murals—can open doors to deeper understanding and shared humanity.
