Artist uses his brush to turn Surfside's pain into hope.
Mayor Charles Burkett delivered an emotional speech as first responders continue to look for victims of the Surfside building collapse. Over 80 people are still unaccounted for.SURFSIDE, Fla. -- Roberto Marquez flew from Dallas to Miami nearly two weeks ago, hoping to add his hands to those digging through the rubble of a fallen South Florida condo building. But once there, the muralist was disappointed to hear that his help was appreciated but not needed.
“What happened is a tragedy,” Marquez said Friday, as he brushed gray paint onto a canvass. “There is no way to get around this tragedy ... but one thing we can grab on, I say, is hope.” In that memorial, Marquez sees a community in pain. Now and then, people come by to walk along the collection of memories. He sometimes sees people crying.
On one side of Marquez's cubist painting, a first responder reaches upward for a victim. A fireman's ladder symbolizes the crews risking their lives in their attempt to save others. There's a woman being pulled out of the rubble. A priest has his arms stretched out into the heavens, one hand clutching a cross.
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