Fukushima Nuclear “War” 2011-2021

The Fukushima tragedy of 2011 like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Bikini Atoll, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl speak the tremendous danger and folly of nuclear power, Whether in reactors generating electricity, or nuclear weapons, we humans are still “Prometheus Unbound” children playing over the past 75 years with “nuclear fire.” From that unspeakable horror of Fukushima’s nuclear meltdown, unleashed by a natural tsunami, arose echoes of the human spirit, voices of remembrances, visions of hope. May the messages be heard

(recycled waste stock, poster board, ephemera papers, watercolors, acrylic paint, black ink, neutral pH adhesives)

“Phone of the Wind” by farmer Itaku Sasaki in honor of his lost friend, a phone booth connecting the living and the dead, Iwate, Fukushima Japan

Temple for the 20,000 lost “Energies (souls)” of Fukushima

“Stairway to Heaven,” Ukedo Elementary School, 200 meters from the Pacific Ocean, in honor of “the children swept away”

“Soul Ship TSUNAMI,” Burials at Sea, Fukushima, Japan 2011