tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65400409793242815852024-03-19T23:12:56.487-07:00Hatsuko Mary HiguchiHatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-28655728479870592942017-03-31T12:49:00.000-07:002017-03-31T12:49:12.104-07:00Tuna Canyon Purification Ceremony Konkokyo minister Alfred Tsuyuki performed the ceremony, scattering salt and rice paper confetti in front of the wooden altar honoring World War II detainees. More than 2,500 Japanese and other citizens of foreign descent were held at the beginning of WWII, but little evidence of that episode is visible on what is now the present site of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course. Only the oak trees remain.<br />
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-28825445156441833712017-03-31T12:48:00.000-07:002017-03-31T12:48:50.466-07:00Returning to AmericaMy mother was born in Santa Monica. Her mother died after giving birth to her in 1916. There was a pandemic flu which killed millions around the world. A few years later, when she was 3, her father died and she was sent to Japan to be raised by an aunt. She returned alone to America at the age of 21 and lived on Terminal Island. <br />
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-42220451781386802862017-03-31T10:24:00.002-07:002017-03-31T10:25:41.318-07:00Hallowed GroundI was asked to do some paintings for the Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 2016. The theme was Hallowed Ground. As I thought about the theme, I envisioned the grounds of the camps as a spiritual, haunted and ghost like, and the underground buried with layers of stories to tell.<br />
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HG1, names the gulag of concentration camps as if they were ready to be called out in a roll call.<br />
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HG2, depicts the inmates lined up at the communal mess hall. Lines to eat, to use the shower, the latrines, movie night, and laundry rooms were a familiar sight, with approximately 8,000 to 20,0000 people incarcerated at each camp. The familiar sight of Tule Lake's iconic Castle Rock is prominent in the background.<br />
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HG3, A family looking out between the barbed wire, with their individual identity tags (which are made of acetate), hanging from the fence. They stand on Hallowed Ground, depicted with memories of the lives they left behind and the reasons they find themselves incarcerated at Tule Lake.<br />
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HG4, is a protest poster. On it is an original poster of Executive Order 9066, the loyalty survey's questions 27 and 28. If they answered "No...No..." or did not respond at all , they were labeled "disloyals" and "troublemakers".<br />
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HG5, Despair: Families were torn apart as discord surrounded them. Pressures mounted from within and without family units, and pitted families and friends against each other.<br />
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HG6, Tule Lake had 28 guard towers overlooking the troubled prison. This was more than any of the other camps.<br />
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HG7, Survival. This painting depicts three Japanese cultural characteristics that comprised the survival mantra of Nikkei during and after the war: "gaman" (be patient... endure the unendurable), "shikataganai" (nothing can be done), and "kodomo no tame ni" (for the sake of the children).<br />
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<br />Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-58621009124118154542017-03-31T10:12:00.001-07:002017-03-31T10:12:43.843-07:00Family Portrait at PostonThis painting of my family standing outside the Poston barracks shows my mother holding my brother, Tetsuo, born in camp along with my sister, Mitsuko, standing in the very front. I'm on the left, with my hand in my mouth and my sister to my right. Our playmate is on the far right .<br />
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-29635793343259795372017-03-31T10:10:00.002-07:002017-03-31T10:10:57.511-07:00She looked so dapper...My mother, dressed in a dapper outfit for a Sunday drive, stands by a roadster. I wonder who took her picture? Who was the driver? Could it have been a date?<br />
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-43162723602279849892017-03-31T10:09:00.000-07:002017-03-31T10:49:51.927-07:00Terminal Island<div abp="11" style="text-align: center;">
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My mother, second from the left, and her co-workers at the San Pedro Fish Cannery of Terminal Island, CA.<br />
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My mother, standing on the left, enjoying a day at the beach with her friends on her day off.<br />
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-90807970119332404312015-01-23T14:51:00.000-08:002015-02-06T06:00:45.907-08:00HEART MOUNTAINThe packer and shipper came to pick up 22 paintings for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and Interpretive Center. I will have a one woman show from February to May 26. I have included 3 new paintings in that collection. Series 32 is a 8"x 8" mixed media painting done on Masonite board. It is a painting I did of Heart Mountain, the interpretive center, guard tower and hospital's red brick chimney.<br />
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<em> Executive Order 9066, Series 32. Heart Mountain #1</em>. Mixed media on board </div>
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The second painting, <em>Turmoil at Heart Mountain</em>. is an abstract painting, representing the resistance at Heart Mountain that challenged the constitutionality of their imprisonment and demanded freedom as a condition of their conscription into the U.S. Army.<br />
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<em>Executive Order 9066, Series 33. Turmoil at Heart Mountain</em>.<br />
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The third painting titled <em>Heart Mountain #2</em>, features the iconic symbols of Heart Mountain--the mountain, the hospital with the red brick chimney, the guard tower and the interpretive center--are painted in big interlocking shapes. <br />
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<em> Executive Order 9066, Series 34. Heart Mountain #2.</em> Acrylic on paper. 30" x 22".</div>
Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-10025843098357622902014-12-19T19:58:00.001-08:002017-03-31T09:58:11.280-07:00Recent Paintings<em></em><br />
<em>E.O. 9066, Series 31. Woebegone</em>. I looked up "woebegone" in the dictionary and it means exhibiting woe, sorrow, or misery; also dismal, desolate. This little girl, surrounded by luggage and her parents, looks lost, alone and uncertain about her future. The little girl was painted from a photo of my mother when she was sent to Japan after she was orphaned at the age of three.<br />
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<em> E.O. 9066, Series 31. Woebegone. </em><br />
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<em>E.O. 9066, Series 28, 29, and 30 are titled Unfinished Business. </em><br />
<em>E.O. 9066, Series 28. Unfinished Business: Euphemisms,</em> came from the realization that government officials used inaccurate terminology to describe the mass removal of Nikkei from the west coast during WWII. The employment of euphemisms is described in <em>Words Can Lie or Clarify</em> by Aiko Yoshinaga Herzig. Download her essay at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/tule/">http://www.nps.gov/tule/</a>.<br />
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<em>E.O. 9066, Series 28. Unfinished Business: Euphemisms.</em></div>
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<em>E.O. 9066, Series 29. Unfinished Business: Hardship and Suffering</em>, depicts the systematic destruction of the Nikkei family unit during the forced removal and incarceration. Families lost most of their personal possessions as they were forced to remote areas, then released after the war to start a new life from scratch. Parents lost control of the family. The long hours of work to rebuild their lives after the war took a toll on male heads of households. My father died at the age of 45, a few years after being released from the concentration camp. Studies have shown that 40% of Nikkei males incarcerated during the war, died before they reached the age of 60.<br />
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<em> E.O. 9066, Series 29. Unfinished Business: Hardship and Suffering.</em> <br />
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<em>E.O. 9066, Series 30. Unfinished Business</em><em>: The Questionnaire,</em> depicts the consequences of how one answered the vaguely worded Questions 28 and 29 of a clumsily administered loyalty questionnaire. Those who replied "no...no," were denounced "disloyals" and "troublemakers" and sent to Tule Lake, the concentration camp in northern California designated as the War Relocation Authority's National Segregation Center. Those sent to Tule Lake were stigmatized, but a growing movement seeks to reject the wartime "disloyal and troublemaker" labels as unfair, and redefines Tulean prisoners as outspoken patriots and heroes who had the courage to stand up for their rights as Americans.<br />
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<em> E.O. 9066, Series 30. Unfinished Business: Questionnaire.</em><br />
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<em>E.O. 9066, Series 27. Pilgrimages,</em> shows participants in the 2014 annual pilgrimage to Manzanar concentration camp near Lone Pine, California, raising banners representing the 10 major concentration camps and other detention sites for Nikkei in World War II. I was honored to represent Poston, where I was incarcerated with my family as a child. Each banner carrier wrote a brief statement for the official program, and mine was: "I feel the weight and burden as I raise the banner of my family and others incarcerated at Poston." <br />
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E.O. 9066, Series 27. Pilgrimages. <br />
Watercolor on paper, 30" x 22"<br />
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<br />Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-31504605154423424202014-12-19T19:27:00.000-08:002017-03-31T09:58:11.291-07:00San Diego Watercolor Society International Show 2014<h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photo of Mary Higuchi and Don Hata was taken by Chuck McPherson at the reception for the San Diego Watercolor Society's 2014 International Show on September 27. Mary received the AWM Global Advisors Cash Award ($500) for her painting of <em>Manzanar Guard Tower.</em></div>
Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-54526159787660537112014-08-25T14:20:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.389-07:00Good Summer NewsThe Summer 2014 edition of <i>Acrylic Artist</i> features one of my paintings, <em>Suppression of</em> <i>Evidence.</i> The article is titled<em> Behind the Canvas: Every Picture Tells A Story (page 120).</em> I think you'll find this magazine very informative, featuring many artists I truly admire.<br />
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<i>E. O. 9066, Series 25. Naïve Newcomers</i> shows a group of incarcerees dressed in their Sunday best as they arrive at their destination. How anguishing could it have been to find poorly-constructed barracks, guard towers and barbed wire fences around them? These same people were incarcerated, along with 120,000 other Nikkei (Japanese Americans), in concentration camps for the duration of World War II.</div>
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<em>Executive Order 9066, Series 25. Naïve Newcomers.</em> <br />
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<em>Okaasan's Journey </em>is a painting about my mother's life. Her life of hardship, and determination to make life better for her children, will never be forgotten as this story will be passed on for generations. <em>Kodomo no tame ni</em> ...for the sake of the children.<br />
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<em>Executive Order 9066, Series 26. Okaasan's Journey.</em> <br />
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<br />Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-71567607354556910852014-04-19T12:45:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.408-07:00"Non-Alien" Nursery School, 1942-45<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em>E.O. 9066,Series 24: "Non-Alien" Nursery School Class, 1942-45</em>. <br />
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I'm seated in the second row, at the end on the right. Directly in front of me is my younger sister, Etsuko. We were called "non-aliens." The government employed euphemisms to mask the fact that most of the Nikkei (Japanese American) incarcerees were U.S. citizens. Thus, "non-alien" was used instead of U.S. citizen.
As I painted this, I empathized with the young children, and now have some understanding of how that period has left an indelible scar on my life and defines who I am today.Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-71577820452590517112014-03-31T10:19:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.415-07:00TWO MORE RECENT PAINTINGSLast year when I went to the Henry Fukuhara Paint Out, I took a photo of <i>Manzanar Pleasure Garden. </i>I didn't realize until I had the picture developed that the garden was dappled with beautiful shadows. The only recognizable shapes are the trees in the background. Otherwise, the painting looks like an abstract of beautiful patterned shapes.<br />
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<i>Executive Order 9066, Series 22: Manzanar Pleasure Garden.</i><br />
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The love of my life is my 5 year old grandson. I placed him behind barbed wire, writing in the dirt, <em>I Pledge Allegiance. </em></div>
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<i>Executive Order 9066, Series 23: I Pledge Allegiance. </i><br />
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All paintings are available in poster prints, giclee prints, and cards. Originals are also available. <a href="mailto:maryhiguchiarts@yahoo.com">maryhiguchiarts@yahoo.com</a></div>
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<br />Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-55945896657257215602014-03-24T11:51:00.002-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.397-07:00NEW PAINTINGSIn January, I was able to take a 3 day workshop with Kathleen Conover from Michigan. Kathleen is an award winning artist and I have always admired her paintings with multiple layers of color and texture. I have been intrigued with her technique, imbued with symbolism and a very personal reflection of her observations. From our conversations, Kathleen and I found that we are alike in many ways in our interest in the art world and our pursuit of art education.<br />
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I completed two small pieces in her class. With our textured background, we were to integrate a composition to go with it. My finished piece, <em>Imprisoned,</em> came as a result of the background of tangled gauge print. I imagined myself trapped in that tangled mess with the barracks and guard tower in the background.<br />
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<em>Executive Order 9066, Series, 20: Imprisoned</em></div>
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-62851609559574688622013-11-20T12:22:00.001-08:002017-03-31T09:58:11.404-07:00Colors of Fall Arrives in a new book...<em>Surviving Minidoka: The Legacy of WWII Japanese American Incarceration </em>edited by Russell M. Tremayne, historian at the College of Southern Idaho and Todd Shallat, director of the Center for Idaho History and Politics at Boise State has arrived. It's a beautiful hardcover book of poetry, original art, and historical rare prints. Included in the book are seven of my original paintings. I am pleased with the book and feel honored to have my artwork as part of this history book.<br />
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<em>Executive Order 9066, Series 17. Desecrated Cemetery</em><br />
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A memorial service was held at the Tule Lake Cemetery. As the Pilgrimage participants honored the people who were incarcerated and died at Tule Lake during World War II, I felt their emotions as they viewed what is now a desecrated cemetery, bulldozed over, creating a pit at the site.</span><br />
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Executive Order 9066, Series 18. What Lies Ahead?</em>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took a photo of an elderly man, carrying the suitcase that he had taken when forcibly removed from his home in 1942. He brought it to the Pilgrimage and as he sat there, I envisioned a younger man, waiting to be taken to some unknown place. Many questions filled the minds of the prisoners, as they wondered nervously, "what lies ahead?"
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Executive Order 9066. Series 19. Manzanar Guard Tower</em>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This painting was created for the 16th Annual Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Paintout. As I looked through the legs of the guard tower, I was intrigued by the shadow of the tall, strong, bold structure looming in front of me. Peeking through the legs, I envisioned the concentration camp-- hundreds of barracks surrounded by barbed wire, parts of it coiled and twisted.</span><br />
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Series 13 is a painting of the notorious Tule Lake stockade. I have participated in two of the Tule Lake Pilgrimages. They have been one of the best organized, drawing over 400 participants, with interesting programs and breakout sessions, starting early in the morning and late into the night. My painting captures the injustice and harshness the incarcerees suffered during their imprisonment. The story of Tule Lake is complex.<br />
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<em>Executive Order 9055, Series 14. Minidoka</em><br />
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Minidoka is a painting of how I remembered the site after my participation in the 2010 Pilgrimage. The foreground shows railroad ties, behind that, the sentry post, then the rock garden, barracks and lastly, the canal.<br />
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<em> Executive Order 9066, Series 15. Minidoka Rock Garden</em><br />
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The rock garden at Minidoka is a stolid place with huge rocks placed strategically that poetically projects feelings of solidarity, strength, and peace.<br />
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<em> Executive Order 9066, Series 16. Topaz</em><br />
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Topaz is a place of special meaning for me. We went to visit it on our way driving home from Minidoka. To our good fortune, when we went to the Topaz visitor center, we met Jane Beckwith, who is guiding Topaz in its struggle to become a historic site. She took us out to the original camp ground, which we would have never found on our own. No barracks, no guard towers, but acres and acres of desolate dry land with remnants of the past strewn all over. My collage shows, symbolically, the nails, rock garden relics, barbed wire, appliance and furniture parts and the cracked, parched soil. As I looked at the landscape, I felt the presence of the dark past in unbearable heat.<br />
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Dr. Donald Teruo Hata and I spoke at the 70th Anniversary of the Day of Remembrance at the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute on February 26, 2012. Excerpts of Mary's artist talk and Don's book talk can be seen by clicking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFRszKx3HQ&feature=plcp">here</a>.<br />
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Evidence" is a painting of the mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese Ancestry from the Pacific Coast during World War II.<br />
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At the entry to the Interpretive Center at Manzanar National Historic Site, there is a quote by syndicated columnist Henry McLemore: "Herd 'em up, pack 'em off and give 'em the inside badlands... Personally, I hate the Japanese."<br />
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I thought I had finished the painting until I read the <i>L.A. Times</i> on May 25, 2011. On the front page, it said that the wartime U.S. Solicitor General had suppressed the fact that U.S. Intelligence services had determined that we were not a security threat, which in turn meant it was not necessary to imprison Japanese Americans in concentration camps. I was outraged, and I went back to my painting and wrote "Suppression of Evidence" and the summary of the <i>Times</i> articles and my reaction. That finally completed my painting.<br />
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<br />Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-11614331063682328252011-12-28T11:45:00.000-08:002017-03-31T09:58:11.285-07:0030th Annual International Exhibition, San Diego Watercolor Society - Linda Doll Seminar Group Cash Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Executive Order 9066, Series 8" was recognized in the 30th Annual International Exhibition of the San Diego Watercolor Society in 2010. The mixed media work depicts one of the favorite pastimes of Japanese American children who were incarcerated at concentration camps across the United States during WWII. Marbles and other portable games such as jacks were among the only toys that young prisoners were able to carry to the camps.Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-41285056047901448882011-07-03T14:22:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.295-07:00E Pluribus Unum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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E Pluribus Unum, Series 1: Cultural Diversity at CSUDH. Watercolor, image 30" X 22"</div>
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E Pluriibus Unum, Series 2: 50th Anniversary of CSUDH Mixed media, image 30" X 22"</div>
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<i>E Pluribus Unum was unveiled May 12, 2010 at CSU Dominguez Hills in celebration of the university's 50th Anniversary. L-R: Mary Higuchi and President Mildred Garcia. Photo by Gary Kuwahara</i></div>
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-53467314469574049302011-07-03T12:59:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.385-07:00Executive Order 9066<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Executive Order 9066, Series 1. Mixed media, image 15" X 11"</div>
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16891059099805321231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540040979324281585.post-62432273265452407462011-07-03T12:52:00.000-07:002017-03-31T09:58:11.401-07:00Welcome to Mary Higuchi Arts<div style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hatsuko Mary Higuchi was born in Los Angeles in 1939. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Executive Order 9066</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, which authorized the mass removal and incarceration of “all persons of Japanese ancestry” on the West Coast. Mary’s family was imprisoned in the U.S. War Re</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">location Authority’s Colorado River concentration camp at Poston, Arizona, 1942-1945. Her father died in 1951, after purchasing a 10-acre farm, leaving her mother to raise four small children and work the land. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Always interested in the arts, she took evening classes at UCLA and California State University Long Beach in weaving, craft design, silver-smithing, black-smithing, and interior design. A turning point in her life occurred in 1989 when she met Henry Fukuhara. It was through Henry’s mentoring and encouragement that Mary’s painting career was launched. In 1998, Mary was among the founding group of plein air artists who joined Henry’s annual Manzanar Paint Outs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mary Higuchi paints a variety of themes such as landscapes, figures, and abstracts. She uses watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, collage, and calligraphy. Her </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> paintings depict faces with anonymous features or none at all, symbolizing the mass anonymity to which over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were reduced–denied due process and judged guilty solely by reason of their race. Mary Higuchi’s haunting portraits are a warning that what happened to Japanese Americans is a precedent for similar actions against other groups, unless we remember the lessons of the past. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Recent Awards and Juried Exhibitions:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2004. Juror’s Award. Watercolor West XXXVI. Brea, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2005. First Place in Abstract and Best of Show. Torrance Artist Guild Fall Show. Torrance, CA. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2006. Painter’s Haven Award. 26</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> International Exhibition. San Diego Watercolor Society. CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2006. First Place in Abstracts; Third Place in Genre. Mid Valley Art League. Pasadena, CA. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2007. First Place in Portraits and Figures; First Place in Genre. Mid Valley Art League. Pasadena.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2007. Excellence in Arts Award for Visual Arts. City of Torrance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. Best of Show. South Bay Watercolor Society. Torrance Art Museum.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. Daler Rowney Award. Watercolor West 40</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Juried Exhibition. Brea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. Ripsime Marashian Donor Award. 37</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> National Juried Exhibit, Brand Library. Glendale, CA. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. First Place in Portraits; and First Place in Abstracts. Torrance Artists Guild. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. Best of Show; First Place in Genre. Mid Valley Art League. Pomona, California.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. David Gale Memorial Award for </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 2</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Tubac, AZ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009. President’s Award; Honorable Mention in Portraits. Mid Valley Art League. Pasadena.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009. Best of Show. South Bay Watercolor Society. Torrance Art Museum.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009. Best in Show. Torrance Artists Guild. Torrance Art Museum.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009. Best of Show and Signature Member. 12</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual ISAP International Open Exhibition. International Society of Acrylic Painters. Santa Cruz, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009. 2</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">nd</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual ISAP International Open Online Exhibition. International Society of Acrylic Painters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. Rockies West National 17</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual Watercolor Exhibition. Western Colorado Watercolor Society. Grand Junction, CO.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. National Watercolor Society All Member Show. NWS Gallery, San Pedro, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. Linda Doll Seminar Group Cash Award. 30</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual International Exhibition. San Diego Watercolor Society. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. First Place in Portraits; and Membership Award. Torrance Artists Guild.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. 3</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">rd</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual ISAP International Open Online Exhibition. International Society of Acrylic Painters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. Los Angeles Juried Exhibition. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. Rockies West National 18</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Annual Exhibition. Western Colorado Watercolor Society. Grand Junction, CO.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Albuquerque, NM.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. National Watercolor Society All Member Show. NWS Gallery, San Pedro, CA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. California State University Dominguez Hills, 50</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Anniversary commissioned painting, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">E Pluribus Unum-Series 2.</span></i></span><br />
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Rockies West National. 19<sup>th</sup> Annual Exhibition. Awarded Signature
Membership Status.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2012.
First Place in Honor Court Division. Mid Valley Arts League. Arcadia, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Best of Show and First Place. 15<sup>th</sup> Annual ISAP International Open
Exhibition. Paso Robles, CA.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2013. Northwest Waterolor Society (NWWS). 73rd Annual Open Exhibition. FineArtsStudioOnline (FASO) Award. Mercer Island, WA.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span>2013: California State Senate. 10th Biennial Contemporary California Art Collection Exhibition. State Capitol, Sacramento, CA. <em>EO 9066,Series 9.</em><br />
2013. APC Fine Arts & Gallery. <em>Connected by Art: The Return Together, </em> An exhibition of paintings by Henry Fukuhara, Mary Higuchi, Ron Libbrecht, & Al Setton. Torrance, CA<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Publications and Blogs featuring </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">E Pluribus Unum</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Series:</span></b></span> </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 2</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">American Artist</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> magazine (May 2008).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 4</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, in Chris Unwin, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Artistic Touch 4</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Creative Arts Press, 2010).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 2</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Letter Arts Review: The Annual Juried Issue</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Vol. 24, No.2, 2010).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. Mary Higuchi’s brief biography and three of her EO 9066 paintings are on Donna Watson’s </span><a href="http://donnawatsonart.blogspot.com/2010/05/personal-expression-part-2.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Blogspot</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> link</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 4</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, cover illustration on Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress, Fourth Edition</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. (Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2010).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. E Pluribus Unum, Series 1</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, cover illustration on official program for the first Asian Pacific Islander Graduation Celebration at California State University, Dominguez Hills.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. Unveiling of commissioned 50th Anniversary commemorative painting, "E Pluribus Unum" for </span><a href="http://www.csudhnews.com/2011/05/unveiling-of-50th-anniversary-art-reading-by-don-hata/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CSU Dominguez Hills</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EO 9066-Series 6</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, cover illustration on official program of the 2011 Pilgrimage to Manzanar National Historic Site. Independence, CA.</span></span><br />
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<i>EO 9066 - Series 8</i>, in Chris Unwin, <i>Artistic Touch 5</i>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2013. <em> Annual Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Workshop</em>, an interview of Dani Dodge, Mary Higuchi,and Al Setton, on podcast: h<a href="http://collidingworldstvandart.com/podcasts.html">ttp://collidingworldstvandart.com/podcasts.html</a></span><br />
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2013. <em>EO 9066-Series 7, Recess Time</em>, cover illustration, Tule Lake Unit of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, General Management, Newsletter #1, Public Scoping, Summer 2013, http:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/tule/parkmgmt/upload/TuleScoping-Newsletter1%20PEPC%205-31-13.p">//www.nps.gov/tule/parkmgmt/upload/TuleScoping-Newsletter1 PEPC 5-31-13.p</a>df</span></span></div>
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2013. EO 9066. Six paintings in Russ Tremayne <em>Surviving Minidoka</em> , ( Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press. Boise, 2013.<br />
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For<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> additional information</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, contact Hatsuko Mary Higuchi at</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="mailto:maryhiguchiarts@yahoo.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">maryhiguchiarts@yahoo.com</span></span></a>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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