Washington Post - Local architect designs Washington memorial to victims of genocidal famine in Ukraine
District architect Larysa Kurylas steps back from a tall panel of sculpted wheat stalks to judge how the public will see the relief. She has come to Laran Bronze, a Pennsylvania foundry located near a casino and a state prison, to check on the progress of her memorial to the 3 million to 6 million Ukrainians who were systematically starved by the Soviet Union in a 1932 and 1933 famine. But the tall, studious woman isn’t happy with what she sees on a large piece of urethane carved by a computer-guided blade.
“The tips of the wheat are too soft,” she tells Lawrence Welker, son of the foundry’s owner, who is supervising the project. “They need to be more sharply defined.”