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13-Year-Old Wins Recognition for Post-9/11 Art
Aired March 23, 2002 - 08:30 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: A 13-year-old artist from Hong Kong is getting some international recognition for her creation. It's a poster that represents the possibility of peace after September 11. For her work Hayman Lau (ph) received $2,500 from the Lion's Club International and a trip to New York City.
She joins us now from New York with her translator and art teacher, Henry Lau Hoo (ph) and we appreciate you both being with us.
HENRY LAU HOO: Hello.
O'BRIEN: All right, Henry, if you could pass along our congratulations and ask Hayman to give us an idea of what her inspiration was for her poster.
HAYMAN LAU: The doves represent peace. The rainbow means the brilliant future. The doves from different areas fly high and join together to bring peace to every corner of the world, just like the sunrise breaks through the darkness of the night.
O'BRIEN: Hayman, if you could just describe the poster for us and tell us what each piece of symbolism means to you and what it should mean to us.
LAU: The doves represent peace and rainbows is the brilliant future.
LAU HOO: And I think Hayman wants to get this message, because the poster, she used, there's a regulation that you can't use any language on this. So that this poster, she must do it in, for example, when people looking at this poster, they have only one or two minutes to look at the poster. So Hayman used the methods to let all those things, you can see the doves flying is for transformed from rainbows. And the rainbows coming from all over the world. You can see them. The world map at the lowest eye of the rainbows. And they're just flying out and break through the darkness. You can see the square frame is the darkness. And then finally there's one, the one on the top of the one, back through the darkness.
O'BRIEN: I particularly like the, it appears -- is it a dove that breaks through the box, if you will?
LAU HOO: Yes.
O'BRIEN: Tell me about that a little bit.
LAU HOO: Yes. Hayman, did you remember that we actually discussed about whether the dove need to break through the lines? Because you can see all the different colors, doves, they actually represented different kinds of peace from all over the world and they finally, they united together to become one. They're the only one that can break through all the darkness.
O'BRIEN: All right, well, thank you very much, both of you, for being with us, Henry and Hayman. And Hayman, I think clearly your art speaks for you in volumes. We appreciate you both coming with us on CNN this morning. Congratulations on your award, chosen out of more than 325,000 posters by the Lion's Club as the peace poster of this year. Thanks for being with us on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
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