I learned this from the audience at my lecture at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. It was a good crowd and a great discussion after my lecture (and I made it through without crying, although I was choked up several times). Afterwards we had a feast at WASABI with 14 people: fish heads (yum those cheeks!); sardine sashimi + sardine tempura + sardine dumplings (sardine is a Hiroshima specialty); fresh tofu and fried tofu; shisito peppers; yum yum plum wine; bottles and bottles of sake; potato fritters; mountain potatoes and octopus; triangular heaps of tamago (sweet egg) = divine. THANKS to Hiroko for organizing it all and to Suzuki for joining us - he designed my card, and to Larry, JoAnn, Steve + Elizabeth, Michiko + Kiri, Madeleine, Ian + Lily for celebrating with me and welcoming me to Japan. Suzuki made me a calligraphy drawing to congratulate me on my first show in Japan that said "You have bloomed in Japan. Now it is Spring." I hope so!
Here are Ian and Lily from New Zealand with my sister Madeleine in front of the Peace Musem, cenotaph and Dome in the background, yesterday.
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Hiroshima 2 nights ago while I was walking over a bridge to get some Agadashi Tofu and Plum Wine
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Hiroshima 1, before bombing (from documentary film in museum)
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Hiroshima 2, after the bombing, what was destroyed
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Hirshima 3, what was destroyed entirely by fire
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Hiroshima building after bomb
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Shadow of ladder that was incinerated by the A-Bomb
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Shadow of a person incinerated by the A-Bomb on a bridge
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Hiroshima after the bombing
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one of many views of the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima taken by the U.S. military
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the result of the bombing - a city gone, 75,000 people immediately disappeared, 75,000 more by the end of the year....
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the bomb
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the first photograph known to be taken after the bombing, shocked and injured and suffering people on a bridge trying to understand, to survive, to find loved ones
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the cenotaph in Peace Park where names are added each year to the registry of the dead of those who died as a result of the A-Bomb
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The light in the stairwell of the Former Bank of Japan, right outside my exhibition room
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my exhibition room with Ian measuring it by walking, half the walls are up!
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Tomorrow morning at 9 I meet an army of 10 to help me bring all my work over to the bank and begin installing at 10am, opening at 3pm! Fast turnaround.......keeping fingers crossed!
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