collage with hand-cut found paper, historical elements, decorative rice paper
20 x 16 x 1″
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was born in Yamaguchi, Japan. When she was two years old, she was at home about one mile away from ground zero, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Sadako was blown out of the window and her mother ran outside to find her, suspecting she may be dead, but instead found her two-year-old daughter alive with no apparent injuries. While they were fleeing the atomic blast, Sadako and her mother were caught in black rain. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known “hibakusha” — a Japanese term meaning “bomb-affected person” and later died of malignant lymph gland leukemia in 1955.
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