Water Please

2000

36" x 39"

Hiroshima Series

The last words of many bomb victims were requests for water. When I was in Hiroshima in 1989 I bought Japanese cloth with beautiful water designs.

Palms joined my friend asked for water

That I gave none has become my lifelong regret

                                    Kono Chizuko

Snail-like I crawled on the ground and sought water

About that living hell I cannot tell my children

                                    Kanamoto Miskai

Poetry from The Atomic Bomb Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll