After touring around Japan for almost two years in support of the victims of the 3/11 tsunami in Tohoku, showing in 55 locations, Linda Ohama’s Cloth Letter exhibition is coming back to Canada where it began.
I received a phone message from my Nisei Aunt Lorna in Barrie, ON:
“Norman, I just saw a news report on CTV news about a group of students from Malvern Collegiate in Toronto who are going to Japan to see the 3/11 disaster zone. The Japanese Consul-General, Eiji Yamamoto ...
1．全国での展示も終了間近
2012年12月30日。この日は、津波で壊滅的被害を受けた岩手県沿岸部の大槌町でキルト展が行われていた。国内での展示も残り２カ所。リンダ・オオハマさんの提唱でカナダ全土から届いたキッズメッセージ・キルトによる復興支援プロジェクトも国内での最終局面を迎えようとしていた。前年6月にキルトが日本に届いてから１年半。目を閉じるといろいろな情景がよみがえってくる。
“I was scared of old, distant memories
Now I’ve become strong and tall
If the night will
even if there is nothing left in the world,
the light will come
When will it come again?”
—from “Headlight” (2012), Monkey Majik
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THE NUMBER OF CLOTH LETTERS KEEP GROWING...
In June 2011 Canadian Cloth Letters there were two large cloth letters (which were later divided into 3 cloth letters). By October 2011 at the Tokyo exhibition of Canada and Tohoku cloth letters there were 11.
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