Chinese Artist's 9/11 Mural Informed by Life's Broad Strokes
All Yang Yi needs now is a place in New York to display his mammoth, five-panel tribute.
Though very successful in China as a magazine art editor, Yang Yi decided to move to New York in 1995 to join his brother. He eventually found his way to a perch in Central Park, where he made a living drawing caricatures.
As Yi recounts in the South China Morning Post magazine, everything changed for him – like so many others – as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks:
A month after 9/11, I went to work at a shopping mall in upstate New York.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in