Children of the Ashes
It is all very well to read word after word, sentence after sentence, to see photographs, drawings and paintings depicting the horrific scenes of the aftermath that was Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to look at maps of affected areas of a city, and country, devastated by Atomic warfare.
The viewer can’t feel, touch or smell that horror.
The charred remains of the books pages are not only a reflection of the map of the desolation caused, a visual dialogue and metaphor for the area of violence and destruction from this horrific event, but more importantly it brings home physically the devastation caused by this type of warfare: the use of heat to create a tortuous and agonizing death.
The People of Hiroshima
Based upon a book by Robert Jungk
Selected and shown in the 2007 Birmingham Open Art Show, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Gas Hall
Also recently shown for the Derby City Open 3D, at the Silk Mill, Derby between November 2007 & January 2008