Ruth Asawa at MoMA
So happy to have seen the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA before it closed. February 7th will be the last day, so if you can make it over there before then I highly recommend seeing it. I was taken by so many things: her talent, her resilience, her ability to share her work and knowledge with young people (and old people too!), her foresight to get a patent for her unique wire construction, and her ability to produce an abundance of work in a multitude of mediums. When she was 16 she was sent to an internment camp in Santa Anita, California, along with her mother and siblings, a punishment for simply being of Japanese descent, and then later moved...