The Power of Beauty Engaging Artists to Bring Hope and Healing

to Fukishima, Japan

Eisuke KandaFVI

Friends with the Voiceless Intn’l

Magnitude 9.0

The Great East Japan Earthquake

March 11, 2011

Fukushima #1 Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

8 months later

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face

and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin

and will heal their land.

(2Ch 7:14 )

Radiation

Affects is

wholistic.

Physical External exposure to radiation & Internal uptake of radioactive

materials (food, water)

Mental & EmotionalTrauma, Emotional stress, breakdown

SpiritualFear, Distrust

Social Family and community breakdown

Environmental Contamination of soil(Farm land, Forest),and water, ocean

Is there a hope？

Inspired by Stephan Eicher

　 Reflection Art Gallery ＠ New Delhy

Fukushima Future Forum ⑤

Art Exhibition“We are here for a

reason.”

Culture CenterIwaki city, FukushimaMarch 8～ 13, 2014

Jesus wept.

HiroshimaNagasaki

Fukushima

We are here for a reason.

Let us paint a New Story of Fukushima.

We experienced nuclear bomb attack twice.And now, nuclear plant explosion.

Children who paint the future

By Akiko Kameoka

The earth quaked, the waves roared. The ink bottle fell over, the lid was not closed.

Black ink spread all over. Adult tried to repaint, some tried to recover to the original color, another to a more

beautiful color. Some even tried to ignore the fact. Some spread black ink all over.

Black ink invaded the children’s white future. Oh, no !

But, look!God has given a brush to the children.A much bigger brush than adults have.

It is now all right to repaint all over that which adults have previously painted. Do not hesitate.

Paint a new future.

The future belongs to the children…yes it is theirs who are going to be born.

O God, I pray that black ink will not spread and defile anymore of the children’s future. Also, I pray that the children will move ahead

toward the untouched future which is like a blank sheet of paper.