The Word in Time
Gregg Chadwick "La Palabra en el Tiempo" (The word in time) 48"x48" oil on linen 2005
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Hiroshima - A Ray of Light That Stabbed Like an Arrow
A ray of light that stabbed like an arrow Drawing and text / Rikuo Fukamachi August 6, 1945 Approx. 2,200m from the hypocenter Ushita-machi (now, Ushita-minami 1-chome) "A tremendous flash of light stabbed like an arrow yet filled every space. I was in the entrance hall, just about to leave the house. The blast blew me, the house, the walls, and all our furniture away. I lost consciousness and lay buried under the rubble until I heard my mother's voice calling me." Child's skeleton in the rubble Drawings and text / Tomiko Ikeshoji (Kubo) August 7, 1945 Approx. 1,500m from the hypocenter Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital Senda-machi 1-chome "In the ruins of a private home outside the hospital grounds, I found the skeleton of a child. At that instant, mysteriously I saw on those bones the cute face of a child. It was a face without injury, without suffering, the face of a first or second grader. I was overwhelmed. Why was such a child here? Yet I never even shed any tea...