Lingering Memory of Sacred

Description:	multiple color polymer gravure. Edition of 15. There are a numbers of theories as to the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it was Roman and Christian attacks during the 3rd and 4th centuries that destroyed the library. The history repeats. Modern terrorisms complexity blurs the values of the destroyers and the destroyed, but the destruction reverberates throughout the world. When I learned of the 2007 bomb explosion in Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, it affected me deeply. I felt the irresistible urge to put my thoughts into intaglio print. In my mind, I want to respond with sympathy for those who suffered. Like many of the victims in Al-Mutanabbi Street, I am an artist. But I wish to avoid reacting with simple revenge, hatred and retaliation. I remember that I am a person. I remember that I am Japanese. I want to respond with the best character of my talent, my humanity and my culture. I expressed the excerpted words from the New Testament and the Koran in my work. I chose to pri
Origin:	2015
Created By:	Ishida, Fumi
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	(Kobe, Japan)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1297
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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