![]() ![]() Mutations that can be passed down genetically. Recent evidence indicating that radiation alters and damages DNA, resulting in Ito’s emphasis on his own body is suggestive of ![]() Like the shadows left across Hiroshima and Nagasaki-are direct negativeĮxposures, true photographs. Into the ground by the extreme heat of the blast. Sound installation containing 108 human-scale photograms and an hour-longīody reference the nuclear shadows left by Japanese civilians who were burnt Afterimage Requiem is a large-scale visual and Sound artist, Andrew Paul Keiper, whose own grandfather was an engineerįor the Manhattan Project-the experimental research initiative that created theįirst atomic weapons. In Sungazing, Ito contemplates ideas of redemption and forgivenessĪs he settles into a new home, America, reconciling with his familial past.īrought into the meditative and collaborative work between Ito and American The 108 evil passions and desires, and to purify one’s soul for the upcoming From New Year’s Eve and into New Year’s Day, human-sizedīells on temples across the country are struck 108 times to purge humanity of The number 108 also has ritualistic importance in Japaneseīuddhism and culture. In Ito’s sequential works hints at the vast numbers of people affected by His own life, one owed to his grandfather’s survival. This shadow of Ito’s breath acts as a registration of Piece, Sungazing, reflects upon this phrase with 108 chromogenic prints,Įach one the result of exposing light-sensitive paper to sunlight for theĭuration of one breath. That day in Hiroshima was like “hundreds of sun lighting up the sky.” Ito’s Ito was only a child when his grandfather passed, he remembers Takeshi Ito recalling To complications from cancer caused by radiation. Ito, was a well-known anti-nuclear activist who died decades after the war due ![]() Kei Ito is a third generation hibakusha, anĪtomic bomb survivor, whose nuclear heritage originates in his grandfather’sĮxperience and survival of the Hiroshima bombing. Today, nine countries are known to possess nuclear weapons and over 30 use nuclear energy. The United States government, who also suffered from exposure to radiation and Includes Indigenous populations and other minorities who mined Uranium ore for citizens and soldiers who suffered from radiationįrom nuclear testing in New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada in the 1940s. Nuclear history is not limited to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The invention and use of the nuclear bomb was credited with ending the Second World War, its horrors justified as a necessary sacrifice for peace. 1 The final death count is still uncertain due to multiple factors: those near ground zero were incinerated or lost to the sea, and deaths resulting from radiation and birth defects were never included. Three days later, before its devastating impact was fully understood, the same force was wielded against Nagasaki, Japan resulting in around 75,000 deaths. At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, a deadly force exploded into the global consciousness when the first weaponized atomic bomb-developed and detonated by the United States-decimated Hiroshima, Japan killing 150,000 people, around 90% of the city’s inhabitants. ![]()
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