Six artists are riding King County bus lines to capture the people and places along the route, looking for those special moments that show busses are more than just a way to get from point A to point B. It's part of a public art project called Moving Series.

King County Transit says the goal is to highlight the unique spaces Metro's RapidRide lines travel.

-So we want to reflect the diversity of those communities.

Celebrate the people who ride transit every day along those lines.

Also, help non-riders also see themselves as future transit riders.

-For the series developed with 4Culture, the six artists will each produce a graphic novel about two of the bus lines.

The books will be released to the public next year when the next RapidRide line opens.

-We're at the point now where the artists are out there doing outreach with folks, starting to talk to people, trying to understand kind of the fabric of those communities and start coming up with their concepts of how that story is going to unfold.

-Two of the artists gave us a glimpse into their process as they rode the bus.

(bus sounds) -Next stop, Fauntleroy Way Southwest and California... It was a quiet ride for Jonathan Ya'el Eden on a recent Tuesday aboard the C line from downtown Seattle to West Seattle.

Even on the sparsely packed bus, there was plenty for the South African American visual artist to take notice of on the route.

-When there's less people on the bus, it can make it harder to sneakily sketch people.

Sometimes I'll just take visual notes of what I see, like there was someone in front of me who had headphones in like a blue sweater.

So I noted that.

I took notes of how people sort of transition in the bus, if there are quiet background conversations people are having with each other, just noticing little things like that that are quite mundane.

But when you're wanting to situate people in like a narrative in a setting that is likely familiar to them, if they're riding the bus as they're reading this comic, paying attention to those kind of touchstones.

A lot of the times when people who clearly don't know each other just strike up conversations that always surprises me.

And I think those are the moments I do really want to include.

A lot of the project is about memory and like the memories that make up like people's experiences riding transit, the memories we have connected to like certain places and neighborhoods and routines, and how the bus can hold that memory.

-Monyee Chau is familiar with one of the lines assigned to them for the project, but that's not making it any easier for the Taiwanese Chinese American artist trying to capture the storied route that runs through the Rainier Valley.

-I used to ride the seven all the time.

And so I thought that the story would come to me really easily.

I think something that I really want to do is capture the complexity of it, capture the joy and love and all this art that has been made about it over so many years, and also all of the complex feelings of, you know, gentrification and the changing landscape of these neighborhoods into this comic.

And so just like trying to convey all of these huge issues and conversations is really difficult, and I'm excited to grapple with it all.

-Along with riding segments of the route, sketching, and taking pictures along the way, Chau is also conducting interviews with people who live and work along the bus line.

-Well, this is one of the most diverse lines of King County, and so wanting to make sure that I'm honoring that and honoring all the people and all of their stories that are a part of this line.

-Chau is taking a completely different approach to the F line, telling the story of an insect, an ant accidentally boarding a bus and experiencing a new perspective as he journeys down the interior of the bus.

-Thank you for watching The Newsfeed.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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