Blessing of the Cranes
charcoal and conté crayon on paper, pen on paper, origami 2016 For this piece, I drew inspiration from the choral composition of the same name and the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan, which commemorates Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of other children who died as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. The monument is inscribed with the words: "This is our cry, this is our prayer: for building peace in the world". |