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Danh Le volunteers to help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Angela Hoang, 14, volunteers to help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native, poses for a photograph in front of the new two-story mural he’s leading to get painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions. Tran put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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Volunteers help fill in a new two-story mural being painted at Sterling Plaza on Friday, May 20, 2022, in Houston. The mural features signifiers from across the spectrum of Asian cultures and traditions and is being led by Thomas Tran, a Vietnamese American artist and Alief native who put out a flyer on Instagram looking for volunteers to help him fill in the mural. Over 100 people have answered the call.
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When Thomas Tran was planning his design for the Asiatown Community Mural, he wanted to make sure that everyone in the neighborhood could see their culture on the giant wall across from the H-Mart on Bellaire. Growing up in Alief — one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the United States’ most diverse city — he had no shortage of reference points from which to draw.
There is a woman in a hijab sipping boba tea next to a woman in a traditional Filipina dress, and a kid shoving an egg roll into the mouth of the mythological Japanese tengu. Farther down the wall, Sun Wukong, the Chinese trickster god, cackles over a platter of roasted pig, while Garuda, a Hindu demigod, looks on stoically.
