Elin O'Hara Slavick, Professor of Art at UNC, is currently showing her new work - Flags for Hiroshima - at Cosign Projects in St. Louis Missouri.The work deals with the lasting and current effects of atom bomb on contemporary politics and culture.
Slavick writes,
"Flags for Hiroshima is made up of three flags, each one holding an image of a Hiroshima dandelion. Each flag displays a city's name on the back: Hiroshima, Baghdad and St. Louis. Exhibiting these flags at Cosign Gallery in St. Louis, I wish to connect these faraway places to the local, as well as the past to the present (and possibly the future) and to help people make those connections."
Check out the site at http://www.cosignprojects.net/current.html for more pictures and info.
Please read the artist's statement at Counter Punch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ohara09182009.html
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