• A mural found on the Crane Community Center in Philadelphia's Chinatown.

  • Some of the elements featured include: A Crane, Lion Dancer, Dragon Boat, Pipa (Stringed Instrument), Monkey King, Asian Textile Patterns, Swallows, Paper Cranes, Etc.

• Represents and preserves symbols culturally significant to the surrounding Asian communities.

  • This mural proudly showcases the collective culture of the community.

• Similar to how Allen describes the preservation of personal history through journalling in The Notebook, communities or cultures leave behind remnants of what is significant to themselves at the time in art across their communities.

It represents a sense of place by showing what happened and made people all around the world not forget what happened by protesting the tragedy.

Bringley says that art serves as an anchor by helping you remember a memory.

2. The art brought the community together. Everyone was angry about the division and this work connected the communities through art and color.

3. This art represents the people of Berlin trying to gain control over a situation they had no control over. Similarly, Michael of Rhodes tried to gain control over his life by journaling and documenting his adventures.

Art can capture a moment in time. Depending on where you were during the time shown, the art can take you back into that place. Art can preserve a community and its values, as well as its history and achievements. All art speaks to people in different ways, possibly as a memory, making them feel recognizable emotions; these emotions can give hope, joy, sadness, and remembrance.

Art is one of the best mediums for preserving culture because unlike written history, which tells an accurate, historic recount of certain events, art allows for an emotional truth not necessarily possible in a textbook. As an example, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government developed the WRA (War Relocation Authority) to round up Japanese-Americans, as well as other Asian-Americans, in internment camps out of fear of further attacks and espionage. At the age of 16, artist Ruth Asawa, was separated from her family add sent to an internment camp. Years later, Asawa sculpted a bronze-cast memorial titled the Japanese Internment Memorial to honor those who had been impacted and protest future injustices. Asawa's memorial serves as a reminder for future generations of the tragedy perpetuated by the US government and memorializes a time and place with an intensely complex history.

Art can help preserve place when people are displaced by bringing the community together in support to a similar cause. By creating art during a difficult time it helps to represent the people who lived through the experience. Creating art also gives us something to look back at and that experience will never be forgotten.