Smooth Fine Art Paper - Museum Grade 230gsm 9mil Print of “Daruma’s Wish to End Child Detention”

This art piece was created for the “#FreeThemAll” Zine, a co-creative coloring book organized by Wynn Adele. Artists were invited to contribute pieces that reflected on the border crisis, xenophobia, and historical injustices impacting immigrant, refugee, indigenous, and people of color communities. Proceeds from the zine will go towards organizations that support families who are currently in detention centers and at the border.

The art piece I contributed to the zine features a crying Daruma doll, with the wish of “Never Again” on its left eye. The Daruma is a traditional Japanese wishing doll, where a goal, wish, or promise is painted in its right eye. When the goal, wish, or promise comes true, its left eye is painted in. The crying Daruma represents the Japanese American community activists who are fighting to make “Never Again” a reality by stopping the repetition of history. At the bottom of the Daruma are children who have been incarcerated throughout U.S. history standing behind barbed wire.