Gauging
The artwork developed from the artist’s visit to her husband’s family home and the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan. Artifacts in the museum triggered repressed memories of the artist’s family’s experiences during the holocaust. A video projected on a film screen, hanging above the table, projects a rainstorm she captured through a bullet train window. Rain, morphing into tears and sperm-like drops, overlayed on sprouting rice fields, provides a life affirming antidote to the remains of ashes in the tins. The installation is part of the artist’s ongoing reflections on positions of victim/perpetrator that she experienced visiting the Atomic Bomb Museum.
Collection:
Seattle Art Museum
Materials:
Burned rice, biscuit tins, wood table, video installation on floating film screen.
Room size: 16’ x 16’ overall.
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