No One There to Wear the Slippers

1999

40" x 37"

Hiroshima Series

Many people left home on the morning of the bombing and never returned.  Slippers that had been left at the door were to be unused.

Charred beyond recognition yet

the shoes he wears are my boy's shoes

                                    Masuda Misako

Poetry from The Atomic Bomb Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 

edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll