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    Los Angeles artist creates origami crane memorial for COVID-19 victims

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    Los Angeles artist creates origami crane memorial for COVID-19 victims

    Karla said cranes are a traditional Japanese symbol of carrying the soul to heaven


    Published:  August 14, 2020 15:55 AP  and  Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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    An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. Image Credit: AP
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    Karla Funderburk started making the cranes three months ago, stringing the paper swans in pink, blue, yellow and many other colors together and hanging them in her art gallery. Image Credit: AP
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    "I was feeling the loss, and one way to process that was I started folding cranes. Image Credit: AP
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    Cranes are a traditional Japanese symbol of carrying the soul to heaven," she said. Image Credit: AP
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    She tried making 10 cranes each night but when on May 14 the number of deaths ticked to 88,000 she realized it would take her 24 years to complete them and she asked for help. Image Credit: AP
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    Now volunteers drop off scores of the elegantly made paper swans daily. Image Credit: AP
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    "I started receiving boxes and bags. Sometimes I would get one crane with one name on it, some boxes had 300,'' she said. Image Credit: AP
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    Hundreds now hang from the ceiling of her Matter Studio with others sitting on tables and stacked in boxes waiting to be added to the sad reminder of the virus' toll. The gallery's website also lists hundreds of names of virus victims. Image Credit: AP
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    "I feel like this space is holding, holding the place, for the remembrances of the souls we are losing." Image Credit: AP
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    More than 165,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image Credit: AP

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