https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/20/why-the-bay-areas-spectacular-murals-arent-just-pretty-art/

In the wake of the destructive 2011 Japanese tsunami, Marina Perez-Wong was painting a mural in San Francisco of koi swimming in turbulent waters. As she was packing up for the day she noticed a woman kneeling in front of the art.

“I thought she was graffitiing on my wall, and I was really upset, because it was supposed to be a healing mural,” she recalls. “Then I looked at her face and realized she was crying. She left something in front of it – she was Japanese, and I could tell it resonated with her on a different vibrancy than other people. That’s something that will always affect me.”