Graffiti attack saddens LGBTQIA+ artist

The Chorus box in the centre of Levin with an artwork representing the LGTBQIA+ community has been bombed with grey paint. A graffiti attack on a rainbow fantail artwork in the centre of Levin that celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community has saddened its creator to her core. Vicky Millman was commissioned to do the artwork in 2021 and had taken the recent bombing of the Chorus box with grey paint to heart. “I feel a deep sadness all the way to the centre of my soul because I thought the people of Horowhenua were better than this,” Millman said. Levin artist Vicky Millman stands next to the Chorus box where her mural of a fantail representing the LGBTQIA+ community has been painted over with grey paint. “I just don’t understand. Why is it that we can’t all just get along? Where is the love?” AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. Millman said she feared the graffiti attack on her mural was encouraged by recent attacks on artworks that celebrated the LGBTQIA+ community in other parts of the country, such as the paint bombing of a rainbow pedestrian crossing on Karangahape Rd in Auckland. Auckland man Ford O’Connor, 31, who is married to granddaughter of...