Kaze: A Memorial to Hiroshima
By John Mason Walker
I’ve been attending “That Thing in the Desert” since 1995, and been doing interesting stuff there and since my first Flipside, when it was 35 of us camping out in Dripping springs. After working on a variety of large camps, working on two C.O.R.E. effigies, the Temple, and acting as the Houston regional Contact for over a decade, it’s time I did something of my own design, and this year, I’m very excited to have a placed piece of art.
Imagine the Effect of Kaze on a Teahouse
“Kaze” means “wind” in Japanese, and represents not only the wind from the Hiroshima nuclear bombing, the force causing the destruction of the Teahouse, but is also a metaphor for the invisible gamma radiation which killed far more than the blast impact or heat. On a deeper level, it represents impersonal, institutionalized violence.
