Destruction path, 2020
Woodcut from the series "The extent of the catastrophe"
30x25 cm, Gouache, water color and ink on washi or wood
Play ground, 2021
Woodcut from the series "The extent of the catastrophe"
each 30x25cm, Gouache, water color and ink on washi or wood
It's not over!
Even 10 years after the triple catastrophe, people in Japan have suffered lasting damage: It is hard to imagine losing relatives, friends and neighbors to the force of a tsunami.
The catastrophe is not only remembered. The nuclear disaster in Fukushima continues: It claims the dead and makes people sick, creates returnees, uproots the evacuees, burdens the grieving, stigmatizes refugees, destroys families, contaminates fields, forests and houses, poisons water, ends communities, makes cities childless ...