Study with the Moon, 2018 - 2019
mixed media installation
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mixed media installation
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This installation is a composite work that addresses the post-World War II history of Enola Gay. It represents like a small presentation room at a history museum with a video-animation painting, four sculptures with captions, and 13 black-and-white drawings. The artworks will focus on different moments in Enola Gay’s career, all pivoting around August 6, 1945; the atomic bomb’s development in Los Alamos, New Mexico; in the air above Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; and consigned to outdoor storage at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she gradually became dilapidated after World War II. My narrative is fictional and subjective for Enola Gay as a way to reimagine a historical calamity and question how mainstream history is preserved, packaged, and presented.
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© 2015 Gaku Tsutaja