My God What Have We Done

Materials:	Assemblage: wooden boxes with manipulated photos and origami cranes
Size:	2 boxes, each 8" x 4"
Creation Date:	22 August 2025
Disposition:	Own collection
Comments:	August 2025 brought the 80th Anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan which followed closely on the dropping of two atomic bombs by the United States - the first on Hiroshima on August 6 and the second on Nagasaki three days later. Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the first plane exclaimed in horror: "My God, what have we done?" In traditional Japanese folklore, the folding of 1,000 origami cranes, is a searching for blessing and recovery. Sadako Sasaki, a child survivor of Hiroshima, famously folded 1,000 paper cranes before dying of leukemia. Thanks are due to Capt. (ret'd) Steven Dieter CD and S/Lt (ret'd) Elizabeth Sneyd for their suggestion that I commemorate the war against Japan.