GOOGLE is celebrating the life of famous sculptor Ruth Asawa with a doodle on May 1, 2019.
Let’s take a look at her extraordinary life.
Ruth was born in 1926 in Norwalk, California to Japanese immigrants who had seven children.
During World War II, a teenage Ruth was forced to live in America’s infamous Japanese internment camps while the US battled Japan in the Pacific.
After 16 months of living in the cam, she was able to attend college and studied to become an art teacher.
She attended Milwaukee State Teachers College before studying at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College.
Ruth began working with wire to create sculptors which would become her signature, reports Newsweek.
Speaking of her work, she said: “Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.”
In 1994, on the subject of living in internment camps, she said: “I hold no hostilities for what happened; I blame no one.
“Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the Internment, and I like who I am.”
Ruth’s work is displayed in a variety of museums including The Guggenheim in New York and San Francisco’s de Young Museum.
She died on August 6, 2013, aged 87.
The artist married architect Albert Lanier in 1949.
The pair had six children.
Lanier sadly passed away in 2008.
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second ‘o’ of Google as a message to that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Googlehomepage.
In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and two pumpkins appeared as the ‘o’s for Halloween the following year.
Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you see on those days.
Google kicked off 2019 with an animated Doodle of New Year’s Eve celebrations.
And on February 5, 2019, the Chinese New Year was celebrated with a hand animation transforming into a pig.
St Patrick’s Day in March 17 was remembered with a Celtic Google Doodle.
And on march 21 Google Doodle used AI for the first time in a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Doodle allowed users to create their own tune.
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