Dense Fog
2022
Materials: Processed cotton, ashes, metal
Dimensions: 2.30m x 70cm
“Hiroshima was an experiment.”
— Paul Virilio
An experiment that resulted in shadows without bodies, rivers flowing through cemeteries, people transformed into wounds, and lands without spring.
The final wound of the Second World War.
Dense Fog is an ephemeral monument to hard-hewn shadows on Hiroshima soil.
A monument of reversal in the Ode of the * Sign:
What you see here,
What you do here,
What you hear here,
When you leave here—
Let it stay here.
The work appears in a coincidental place, as coincidental as the fog
that saved the city of Kokura on August 9, 1945 from the Second
War atomic bomb.
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A billboard at Oak Ridge
Facility in Tennessee
warns people to keep
silent about anything
they see or hear there.
Oak Ridge was a town
built in 1942 to house
workers and the
laboratory that
developed the
Manhajan Project – the
secret second world
war program that built
the atomic bomb.
A human shadow on the steps of a bank in Hiroshima,
following the explosion of the nuclear bomb
in August
1945.