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— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

ruth asawa

DOING IS LIVING   Born in California to Japanese immigrants, avant-garde American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was interned during World War II. She learned to draw at a war relocation center in Arkansas, taking inspiration from organic forms in nature and indigenous basket-weaving. In 1962, she began working with wire, using it as a way […]

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