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Maya Lin: A vision of the future By Janice Nesamani NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
Intro: Maya Lin successfully crosses over from being an architect to an artist and environmentalist, and through all her work, she makes you aware of your surroundings and gain a different perspective. Simplicity is the crowning reward of art. Maya Lin, an artist, architect, and environmentalist, finds her way to
simplicity through mounds of research to create works that are quiet, transport you through time, and provoke thought. Lin has created evocative memorials, such as the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama, the Women’s Table at Yale, the Confluence Project in the Pacific Northwest, and ‘What Is Missing?’ However, she is no memorial woman. She has created buildings, such as the Novartis Building in Cambridge and the Nielsen Library at Smith College, among others. She creates landscapes of scale evoking the movement of water through pieces, such
Syrian mom in Trump lawsuit: ‘It’s unfair’ son stuck abroad
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as the Wave Field at the University of Michigan, or giant doodles in soil such as the Eleven Minute Line in Sweden. Then there’s her art — rivers made up of recycled silver or the Chesapeake Bay made of thousands of marbles that take over a room, the underwater topography of the San Francisco Bay is cast in stainless steel and suspended in air at the California Academy of Sciences. Lin recently spoke at the University of Washington (UW). see LIN on 15
Frustration over new center in Little Saigon Photo by George Liu/NWAW
By Stacy Nguyen NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY On Feb. 8, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced in a press release the location of the “Navigation Center” at the Pearl Warren Building, at 606 12th Avenue South in Seattle’s Little Saigon, an area of predominantly Vietnamese businesses and residents. A sign on south Jackson Street marks the heart of Little Saigon.
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By MARTHA BELLISLE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE (AP) — When war broke out in Syria and the kidnappings began, Reema Duhman used a three-hour curfew to slip out of the country in 2012 and made her way to Seattle. Duhman became a permanent U.S. resident and had almost completed the complicated
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process of securing a visa for her 16-year-old son, still trapped in the war-torn country, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting anyone from Syria and six other countries from traveling to the U.S. “It just broke my heart, you know, when you’re waiting for your son and you prepare his room, you know how many clothes I buy see TRUMP on 12
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Reema Duhman poses for a photo on Feb. 1, in the offices of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle with a photo of her son displayed on her phone. Duhman, who fled war-torn Syria and now is a lawful permanent U.S. resident who lives in Seattle, had almost completed the complicated process of securing a visa for her 16-year-old son, who is still in Syria, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting anyone from Syria and six other countries from traveling to the U.S.