![]() "The medium I have been concentrating primarily for the last thirty years is hand painting silk. Although she is an Olympic athlete, I feel that the general public doesn't know Ibtihaj Muhammad and her incredible story, which is why I chose to highlight her in this piece." (Images based off photographs by Andrew Medichini and Ezra Shaw) I used materials such as fabric, acrylic paint, cut paper, and pencil for this piece each with different qualities that would help me to highlight her fencing career, work as an author, and fashion designer. Ibtihaj is such a wonderful example of achieving your goals and not being afraid to stand up and represent who you are. ![]() She also started her own clothing business with the goal to offer fashionable modest clothing to all women, helping them feel comfortable and confident in themselves. She is most known for being one of the first American women to wear a hijab while competing in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal with the US fencing team in 2016. She is an Olympic sabre fencer, black American, and Muslim. "My inspiration for this piece is Ibtihaj Muhammad. The red/orange one refers to Amache, the internment camp in Colorado where I spent 4 years imprisoned behind barbed wire." This one also relates to the bombing of Hiroshima and a prayer that this will never happen again. The purple/pink one is dedicated to Wakayama and Hiroshima, my father's and my mother's hometowns. The blue/green one has part of a Buddhist prayer which I found in one of my mother's prayer books. Each one has one tsuru with writing, either in Japanese or English, focusing on a specific topic. My three panels of tsuru are three prayers for peace. Some of the castoff tsuru (wrong shape bad folds) have found their way into my pieces. The National Japanese American Citizens League had members and non-members fold 120,000 tsuru (the number of Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps during WWII) with the intention of draping the White House fence in June in protest of the immigration camps with the slogan, "Tsuru for Solidarity" but because of the coronavirus epidemic, has been postponed. Today the tsuru are also used at festive occasions, such as weddings and birthdays. ![]() Since then, there has been a tradition of folding 1,000 tsuru to help a person in difficult situation. She told herself that if she folded 1,000 tsuru (cranes) she would recover. "Sadako Sasaki was 12 years old when the A-bomb obliterated Hiroshima she was burned badly. ![]()
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