With each portrait on his Instagram feed, Chang writes about each victim in the caption: who they were, their background, and for many of the victims, how they loved to dance.
When a gunman opened fire on the Star Dance studio last weekend, the tragedy hit close to home for artist Jonathan Chang.
“I’m usually drawing them as I'm reading the stories, so I keep the image and the emotions at the same time,” Chang said. through the eyes of artist Jonathan Chang. "I feel like through art, we can really humanize these individuals and center it around the victims. I feel like people can resonate with that - read these stories and say, hey this person sounds exactly like my mom, sounds like my dad,” Chang said.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.His digital drawings went viral at the height of the stop AAPI hate movement, when his work was displayed at New York's Times Square last year.
But the Lunar New Year's eve shooting at the Star Dance studio hit differently for the 36-year-old illustrator, whose childhood memories center around the San Gabriel Valley.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
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