August 05, 2005 by Makoto Fujimura | All Writings | Comments
Makoto Fujimura, Zero Summer, 89"x69" Mineral Pigments and Gold on Kumohada Paper
Zero Summer: For the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima
Zero Summer imagines the unimaginable horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and yet points to epiphanic awakening that transcend human imagination at the same time. T.S. Eliot, who coined this term in his “Four Quartets,” longed for that eternal summer, birthed out of the "still point," where imagination is met with grace and truth.
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Makoto Fujimura is a world-renowned artist and the author of Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture.