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Trimet AANHPI Bus Wrap 2024
Trimet’s 2024 AAPI month bus wrap was informed by the Southeast/East Asian myth, Dragon Gate, of the carp’s waterfall ascension and metamorphosis into dragon form. I found symmetry between my mother's expatriation from South Korea to America and the key themes from the myth: obstacles, perseverance, bravery, and reinvention. In The Odyssey of the Dragon, the carp's transformation is a mode of adaptation; the scales remind of where the carp began, but the decision to make the journey has forever changed the once fish. Becoming the dragon, brings an onset of new challenges that parallels the complexity of my mother’s experience. In my mother, I see the dragon. This is for her.