Ellen's instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B-AeatEh9VF/ table book is by Ruth Asawa.

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Excerpt below about inspiration from detention camps:

Ruth Asawa, sculptor of enigmatic woven baskets, had some of her earliest artistic experiences in detention camps. Along with her family and other Japanese Americans unjustly arrested after the outbreak of World War II in 1942, she was held for five months in the Santa Anita race track in California before being sent to an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas for the remainder of her 18-month detention period. Asawa lived in horse stalls and in tar paper-covered barracks, with limited resources, privacy, and provisions. Amid the hardship, she found a silver lining: assisted by several Disney cartoonists who were also internees, she began to draw and paint. “Sometimes good comes through adversity,” Asawa reflected, decades later. “I would not be who I am today had it not been for the Internment, and I like who I am.”