Hope
Plymouth Housing Mural  
Seattle, Washington
Completed September 2021

Hope was commissioned for the new Plymouth supportive permanent housing building using my signature “paper cutaway” technique. Themes include unity, inclusiveness, community, creative expression, and resilience in difficult times.

​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.

Photo: Urban Artworks

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. 

This building is also the new permanent home of arts non-profit, Path With Art. Designed and cut by hand from paper in my studio, the final mural was painted by artists from Path With Art in collaboration
with Urban Artworks. 

Photo: Urban Artworks

Photo: Urban Artworks

Community painting day day in Seattle. Photo: Urban Artworks