the chinese democracy movement decided to paint the sculpture orange by themselves to put focus on human rights in china and show support to the worldwide project thecolororange about using orange in connection to the olympic games 2008 to boost the awareness about the human rights violations in china. the painting of the sculpture was made by students from the university of hong kong and by chinese members of the democracy movement which has its base in hong kong. amongst others, the movement counts the chairman of the hong kong trade union, cheuk yan lee, the poet szeto wah, the human rights lawyer albert ho, the activist and artist longhair, and several hong kong mps.