Artist creates origami crane memorial for COVID-19 victims An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami craneAn artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. “I was feeling the loss, and one way to process that was I started folding cranes. Sometimes I would get one crane with one name on it, some boxes had 300,” she said. “I feel like this space is holding, holding the place, for the remembrances of the souls we are losing,” she said. More than 165,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source: ABC News August 13, 2020 17:47 UTC