Every year, some 9,600 children lose contact with one of their parents as a result of acrimonious divorce. The mural called Mira Mí, created by the artist BEYOND, draws attention to this. The side of a block of flats in Delft’s Buitenhof residential district simply bursts with the colours of the mural. The figures painted on the wall are those of Remses Rafaela, a father from Rotterdam, and his daughter. While Rafaela does get to see his daughter, he does not see his son Joah. “This painful fact is reflected in Rafaela’s eyes,” says Canidream Foundation director and former TU lecturer Glenn Weisz. “One eye holds sadness; in the other we see love.” Without Weisz, his former student Parya Lotfi and residents of Buitenhof, this artwork would never have come about. Mira Mí, which is Papiamento for ‘see me’, is part of Canidream’s Nobis Community Art project. This involves TU Delft students, artists and ‘community builders’ working together to ‘connect’ and beautify the neighbourhood. Lotfi: “During workshops, people – young people, senior citizens, primary school children and refugees – could share who their hero is. Family members came up most often.” Why fathers like Rafaela are in the limelight right now? “The feeling of missing a child is a powerful and universal story. And a messy divorce is one of the very few areas in which men are at a disadvantage,” says Weisz. Mira Mí will be part of an arts tour that runs a route through Delft. “We want to involve TU students in that too.”