LAUREN IIDA
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Plymouth Housing Mural "Hope" 
Uptown Neighborhood (2nd & Mercer)
Seattle, Washington
Permanent Installation Completed September 2021

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Photo: Urban Artworks
​"The title of this piece is “Hope,” which I created for the new Plymouth Housing building using my signature “paper cutaway” technique. Themes include unity, inclusiveness, community, creative expression, and resilience in difficult times. The paper crane in Japanese culture is a symbol of hope and healing, specifically in times of adversity. It is said if one folds 1,000 paper cranes, their wish will be granted. The “Memory Net” aspect of this piece is a reoccurring theme in my artwork, as an emblem for honoring ones cultural heritage and “dredging” up symbolic objects which recall the personal stories which make up our self-awareness as a society. In my piece, community resolve, collective memories and experience come together through the hand of an artist who paints our united future of hope.

Relating back to the purpose of this building, assisting homeless people and being the new home of Path With Art, an arts non-profit I have taught for in the past, I created a piece which inspires hope and celebrates creativity and community. I think it will be enjoyed for generations to come both from close-proximity pedestrians and viewers from afar as well as residents and visitors to the site. Designed and cut by hand from paper in my studio, the final mural will be painted by artists from Path With Art in collaboration with Urban Artworks. "
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Photo: Urban Artworks
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Photo courtesy of the artist
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Iida's original hand-cut paper and watercolor/ink wash mural prototype
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Iida's original paper cutaway prototype was hand-painted by artists from Path With Art and Urban Artworks in Seattle. Photo: Urban Artworks
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Community painting day day in Seattle. Photo: Urban Artworks
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Installation in progress by Urban Artworks August 2021

Public Art Location

Kristin Benson Place
610 2nd Ave N Seattle, Washington, USA
Free and open to the public 
All Images Copyright Lauren Iida © 2022
  • Home
  • Bio
  • Series
    • Memory Net
    • Anticipation/Paris
    • Citizen's Indefinite Leave
    • 32 Aspects of Daily Life
    • 100 Aspects of the Moon
  • Projects
    • Meta Paper Cut Mural
    • Contemporary Cambodian Art
    • Burke Museum Residency
    • Bob Santos Balcony Railing
    • Denver Night Lights/Ukraine
    • Redmond Sound Transit
    • Seattle Storm Signal Box
    • Nuclear Sculpture
    • Densho Memory Net of Remembrance
    • Plymouth Housing Mural, Seattle
    • Federal Way Sound Transit Mural
    • Denver Billboard
    • 2nd Ave Sign Project
    • Factory Phnom Penh
    • Densho Artist-in-Residence
    • Oneness for Cornish
    • Tsuru for Solidarity
    • City of Bellevue Portable Art Collection
    • Washington State Arts Commission
    • Siem Reap, Cambodia Public Installation
    • "Public Art Comes to Your Front Yard"
    • "Shoreline Banners" Public Art
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Press