Flower Tuan Cut Roots Put Ikebana Ee Ke Bah Nah Ik Uh

"For Alice Tuan, a casual glance at an ikebana, or flower arrangement, book blossomed into her latest play, aptly titled Ikebana. `Flowers get cut off from their roots and are put into a new container,' said the Los Angeles-based Tuan, who is currently a graduate student at Brown University in Rhode Island. `There's something about that metaphor that spoke to me on an immigration level. People are cut from their natural roots of their homeland and are put into a new container that is their new country.'" -  Sam Chu Lin, Immigrant Arrangements, AsianWeek, 19 Dec 1996.