Using Pieces from a Vandalized Painting Last Year, Artist and UW Grad Makes Something New

“I would say, do it again and see what happens next time…maybe we make a statue out of it.”by Amber CortesSarani's original painting of Sananda Maitreya was damaged in a very disturbing way. COURTESY OF MIHA SARANI
Last year, when artist and University of Washington alum Miha Sarani’s painting, which was hanging in Mary Gates Hall, got vandalized, he was distraught.
Especially because the painting, a seven-by-eight-foot portrait of Maitreya (formerly known as Terence Tre