Fable

Post-National Museum of Parakeet History, 2017- ongoing project
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FABLE, 2017
Indian ink on paper
21 pages
14" x 11" each

This fable consists of 20 scenes. It opens with parakeets visiting an island, which reflects my own position as an immigrant far away from my home land. When I started this narrative drawing series, I didn’t know what kind of story would be expressed through the monk parakeets. I surprised myself with scene 4, “A Dome Shaped Building,” in which I drew a specific building with a dome shaped roof: it’s not a common type of architecture in Japan, but it is the shape of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima (commonly called Atomic Bomb Dome) which has that type of roof.11 From here, the story begins address the topic of the atomic bomb. Some of the drawings reference famous pictures I found during Internet research.