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...producer and ceramicist Jessica S. Hoy ’07 embarked for rural West Kenya after graduation, she did not see clay on the horizon. On a fellowship for “purposeful travel,” Hoy went to work in a health clinic for the Luo people. Through a group of women she met there, Hoy discovered the art of traditional Luo pottery, in which forms come directly from their age-old uses. Speaking to a small but enthusiastic crowd last Wednesday at the Office for the Arts ceramics studio in Allston, Hoy emphasized the challenges globalization presents...
...That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fiancé, Yang Yong, leaves early each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. "Even when he's sick he works," she says. "It will be even harder in the winter, but we have to live, so he goes." Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficultly finding work. Indeed, the extent of rebuilding still required means he can expect construction jobs for years to come. His 50-year...
...Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, toothpaste, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her 28-year-old fiancé had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made...
...Shopkeeper A short walk from where Lu's daughter died, a temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses, among which Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her boyfriend Yang Yong had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says...
That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fianc leaves each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficulty finding jobs. Indeed, his 50-year-old father works with him, but the family wonders how much longer the father can handle manual labor. So Luo runs her small shop to save money for the future. "We don't have plans," she says. "We don't know where we will...