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When was the last time you met a real hero? It can be a meaningful experience. To affirm in your own mind who and why a person is such a person - a hero.
After November 8th elections, do you still believe in what this country has stood for? Does it change how you regard these 343 firemen? Have you thought about the significance of an immigrant - Yang Yi – in having devoted himself to these portraits?
What do you affirm and support, what do you believe? Who are your real heroes? Not just fictional ones.
Americans both left and right can see and decide if the portraits of First Responders as painted by Yang Yi means something. Yang Yi has continued to focus on the portraits of firemen. These will be exhibited next year.
As a country we may be divided. The 343 may point us to a place of unity. Remember, it is an immigrant who takes time to think through this, and has gifted these paintings to us.
What makes our Kickstarter project most unique is that a portrait painting does not do the same thing as a photograph exhibition of the first responders - it has the capacity to revive a way of seeing, to draw from memory and imagination a different way of feeling. We have received heartwarming responses from local firefighters like Ben Hom and Jay Jonas. Such feelings may not have happened if these were not painted by hand.
First Responders' Kickstarter Campaign
Please support & share AAAC's Kickstarter campaign: First Responders! Go to bit.ly/AAACFirstResponders for more details. #firstresponders #Asianamericanartscentre #kickstarter
