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Heidi Moon Matsukawa with display of origami cranes at the Arts Council

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Heidi Moon Matsukawa with display of origami cranes at the Arts Council

Photo by Christopher Lane Princeton AN ARTFUL EXPRESSION OF GRIEF How do you express grief over lives lost to Covid-19 and police brutality? How do you create community in a time of isolation? For many Princeton-area residents, the answer arose from Japanese tradition: folding thousands of origami paper cranes. “When Covid happened, so many people were dying, and it seemed so hopeless,” says Heidi Moon Matsukawa, proprietor of Miya Table and Home, a Japanese tableware and gift store in Princeton. “We started thinking about creating cranes for every person who died in New Jersey from Covid, so people could see...

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