Spreading Their Wings

In a small room on the second floor of the Bayview Community Center, Yim Laj Yang and Tou Lor are sorting through plastic tubs filled with colored tiles.

Yang, who graduated from West High School in June, reaches for a skinny rectangular piece of dark blue tile from an aluminum pie tin. “I’m working on putting together the background right now,” he says. Shelves lining two walls of the room contain plastic tubs full of tile pieces labeled with shades of blues and greens like starlight, mist, midnight, spring green and everglade.

Taped to another wall are two drawings, one in color and one in pencil, both outlines of wings with several images drawn inside. It’s the final design for the mosaic mural that Yang and Lor are working on.

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