Indian-origin man Tej Chitnis went missing without a trace from his Burwood East home in Melbourne on April 27, 2016.
His family still holds on to hope for some information of him.
"Right now we don't know any more than what we knew almost a year ago," Tej's father, Jayant Chitnis told the Age.
According to the Facebook page created to help find him, Tej’s car was seen in Healesville on the day of his disappearance.
Now, A new campaign has been launched by the Missing Persons Advocacy Network – Unmissables.
Tej Chitnis Source: Supplied
Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN) was founded by Lorene O'Keefe in 2013.
Loren told SBS Hindi that the new initiative -The Unmissables - is to help reignite the memories of the public.
The aim is to help in the search for a missing person through art, she adds.
This new campaign aims to match the families of long-term missing persons with artists and writers.
The artists create a piece of art that might result in vital information about the missing.
Writer Benjamin Law and street artist Heesco have created a mural of Tej.
This art piece is on a vacant wall near Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne.
Benjamin Law Source: SBS
Loren says that the mural was created with permission from Tej’s parents - Jayant and Reva.
Melbourne-based street art/graffiti artist Heesco says that he readily agreed to join The Unmissables.
"I jumped on it straight away as it made good sense as I paint walls all the time...sometimes personal...sometimes commissioned work...something like this with a mission and purpose made lot of sense to me," he told SBS Hindi.
Heesco says that the experience of making Tej's mural was "tough."
"I just wanted to make sure that I capture his essence rather than like get him exactly look like him. The idea was that this wall will bring attention to his name and his image and like his story," adds Heesco.
Noted Australian writer, Benjamin Law wrote the words on Tej's mural.
Benjamin Law told SBS Hindi that his involvement was to "contribute a micro story about Tej Chitnis and who he was to be used as the part of the mural that was painted on the wall."
While Heesco captured Tej's essence through paint, Benjamin's job was to capture his spirit in writing.
The mural describes Tej as “a young man who loved hip-hop, basketball and making breakfast for his mum.”
Benjamin says that "I got a sense of very popular boy who is deeply missed by people who would be familiar to you and me. He was like a lot of young people that I know...someone who is very kind, very caring and deeply affectionate towards his family."
Both Benjamin and Heesco believe that the mural works well instead of the old school approach of using posters that most people often don't look at.
Heesco says "If you paint someone's portrait who is actually missing...it is in a public space and also like social media, they spread the this image around a lot...it just opens it up like at other level of reach."
Loren agrees with Heesco and says that they hope that the family and people will use these murals and bring to attention the missing persons.
Around 38,000 Australians are reported missing every year and among these 2000 are classed as long-term missing.
Loren O'Keeffe Source: Loren O'Keeffe Youtube
Loren hopes their website will help families who may be losing hope.
The Unmissables homepage notes: "The Unmissables is a free online tool designed to help the families of long term missing people reignite the search for their loved ones by making them unmissable."
People involved with this new project hope that the public can help The Unmissables campaign by nominating a wall that could be used as a canvas.
WATCH VIDEO: The Unmissables
The last sighting of Tej Chitnis was of him driving his silver Golf at a petrol station in Healesville about 10am on April 27.
Anyone who knows anything about his disappearance is urged to contact Forest Hill Police Station on 8847 3636 or triple-0.
