Her glass pyrographs, which she makes by dragging molten pieces of glass across paper, looked delicate even through a screen. The way the paper traced the motion of the hot glass was a welcome respite from the images and websites that normally occupied my screen. And because the internet facilitated the viewing of this work, I had immediate access to watching Ichikawa’s process on other platforms like YouTube an experience I couldn’t have in the same way by just seeing her work in a gallery.
Despite these connections, virtually experiencing art felt lacking. I’d usually log off the Zoom or exit the viewing room or shut down Instagram and would again be confronted with my loneliness. Screens make connecting hard.
Crews arrived with heavy equipment arrived early Friday at Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone, apparently ready to dismantle barriers set up by demonstrators, but halted work when demonstrators resisted, including by lying on top of some of the makeshift structures.
Seattle Homicide Rate Increased Sharply in 2020 Amid Protests, Police Defunding
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) investigated 50 homicides last year, the most homicides in the city in 26 years.
This was an increase of 61 percent compared to the 31 cases in 2019. Law enforcement personnel cited issues such as ongoing protests as well as officials actively limiting police power.
Data from local police also shows that homicides across the country rose by 36 percent in 2020 compared to a year before.
“Obviously, the pandemic, the political climate, the civil unrest adds to that,” Jim Fuda, law enforcement director of Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound, told The Epoch Times. “You cannot blame police for that.”
by Jasmyne Keimig • Mar 1, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Pretend like those fences and Honey Buckets aren t there. JK
Amidst all the construction and Honey Buckets on the Broadway mixed-used development and plaza just above the Capitol Hill Link station, public art is quietly blooming.
As part of the AIDS Memorial Pathway (AMP) project, last December saw the installation of the poet and interdisciplinary artist Storme Webber s In This Way We Loved One Another inside the Community Roots Housing’s Station House. Fashioned as a tribute to the missing narratives of women and Black people lost to the AIDS crisis, the installation is viewable to the public from the street on E John.