Suitable to Hanami (Cherry Blossom Festival) in Japan, Betty
Tureaud presents her version of typical Japanese
motifs. As always, a feast for the eyes.
Betty's friends know that she has a special
relationship with Japan, because
her mother, which sadly already passed away, was Japanese. Therefore, the work is a very personal approach with the Japanese
classical aesthetics and culture.
Japan
is also called
the land of the rising sun.
In front of the rising sun are
flying origami cranes and one can
sit on them.
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| Betty Tureaud flying on a crane |
Betty tells about Sadako Sasaki. Sadako lived in
Hiroshima and was only 2 years old
when the atomic bomb
was dropped by the Americans. As a late consequence 9 years later
she started to suffer leukemia. Hospitalized, Sadako heard
about an old Japanese legend
after which one would
get fulfilled a wish of the gods, when
folding 1,000 paper cranes. She folded over
1000 cranes until her death
after 14 months of clinic stay. The cranes became a symbol of the peace
movement. Betty: "Every year school children fold cranes and bring them to Hioshima...The story always makes me cry"
We agreed that it
is a shame that nowadays
in peacetime; the nuclear danger still exists "for the need of cheap energy, greedyness and corruption" .
" THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN" opens April 9th at 2 PM SLT with a set by Ultraviolet Alter, especially created for the installation.
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