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‘Stop’: Sandy Walker uses art to confront the legacy of Hiroshima

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‘Stop’: Sandy Walker uses art to confront the legacy of Hiroshima UN News spoke with Walker during a visit to the UN Headquarters, in New York, to present My Deepest Desire , a newly published edition of Hara’s final work featuring Walker’s ink drawings and a new translation by Liza Dalby. Published posthumously after Hara’s suicide in 1951, My Deepest Desire is a poetic short story meditating on the desire to live a “different, fuller life”. Hara intertwines the death of his wife before the Hiroshima bombing with the devastation and aftermath of the attack itself, creating a work that moves between dream, despair, memory, and survival. Throughout the conversation, the American artist returned to a central idea: art can translate historical trauma into something urgently human.…

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