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A young artist thought as he debated throwing away a pile of Disneyland plastic bags. Not wanting to feel wasteful, he knew there had to be a way of giving these bags a new life.
Grant Fukui is a Japanese American, born and raised in Hacienda Heights. Since a young age he has had a passion for all things creative. As a child he was drawn to watching his grandmother sew projects from scratch and unknowingly took after her technique of creating patterns from paper bags.
One year, he helped her create a costume based off of the book “The Rainbow Fish.” Although he was not eager to wear it, he was enamoured by the process.