"Eye Who Witnessed"
Twelve of the 108 C-print photograms of the eyes of “54 American Downwinders and 54 Japanese a-bomb victims” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “Nuclear weapons affect everyone the same no matter their nationality. As they collectively stare back at us, their eyes become a monument of nameless atomic testimonies.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Burning Away"
An array of silver gelatin chemigrams created using materials that many in Hiroshima used in an attempt to heal their burns, such as honey, on light-sensitive paper on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Many of the victims of the atomic bomb that were not incinerated in the initial 7,700-degree blast suffered serious burns and turned to household items for salves in lieu of hard-to-find medication.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
“R_st in Peace: Little Boy”
A painting created with iron-infused pigment in the shape of “Little Boy,” the first weaponized atomic bomb that was later dropped on Hiroshima, on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “After its application on the gallery wall, the paint is partially rusted and continues the process of rusting and oxidation throughout the exhibition. This painting, “R_st in Peace: Little Boy,” is part of a series of paintings depicting simplified versions of historical weapons.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"(Un)premeditated inheritance"
“108 WWII-era anti-aircraft rounds” full of the artist’s hair and trinitite, “a radioactive glass formed from the heat of the first atomic bomb testing in New Mexico,” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Ito's grandfather worked to produce anti-aircraft bullets in an ammunition factory when the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Eye Who Witnessed"
108 C-print photograms of the eyes of “54 American Downwinders and 54 Japanese a-bomb victims” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “Nuclear weapons affect everyone the same, no matter their nationality. As they collectively stare back at us, their eyes become a monument of nameless atomic testimonies.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"(Un)premeditated inheritance"
“108 WWII-era anti-aircraft rounds” full of the artist’s hair and trinitite, “a radioactive glass formed from the heat of the first atomic bomb testing in New Mexico,” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Ito's grandfather worked to produce anti-aircraft bullets in an ammunition factory when the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Aborning New Light"
One of two scrolls listing “every nuclear weapon testing detonation that was conducted by the United States” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The information is presented “chronologically, and including details such as the operation names, the individual tests, the dates and times, and location information,” according to the display description.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Aborning New Light"
Two scrolls listing “every nuclear weapon testing detonation that was conducted by the United States” frame monitors showing archived footage of nuclear testing on American soil in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The archived footage is played in reverse and the display description reads, “Houses, school buses, and mannequins are reconstructed before our eyes while time counts down to a period before nuclear weapons and their extreme proliferation across the globe.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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Twelve of the 108 C-print photograms of the eyes of “54 American Downwinders and 54 Japanese a-bomb victims” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “Nuclear weapons affect everyone the same no matter their nationality. As they collectively stare back at us, their eyes become a monument of nameless atomic testimonies.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Burning Away"
An array of silver gelatin chemigrams created using materials that many in Hiroshima used in an attempt to heal their burns, such as honey, on light-sensitive paper on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Many of the victims of the atomic bomb that were not incinerated in the initial 7,700-degree blast suffered serious burns and turned to household items for salves in lieu of hard-to-find medication.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
“R_st in Peace: Little Boy”
A painting created with iron-infused pigment in the shape of “Little Boy,” the first weaponized atomic bomb that was later dropped on Hiroshima, on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “After its application on the gallery wall, the paint is partially rusted and continues the process of rusting and oxidation throughout the exhibition. This painting, “R_st in Peace: Little Boy,” is part of a series of paintings depicting simplified versions of historical weapons.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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“108 WWII-era anti-aircraft rounds” full of the artist’s hair and trinitite, “a radioactive glass formed from the heat of the first atomic bomb testing in New Mexico,” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Ito's grandfather worked to produce anti-aircraft bullets in an ammunition factory when the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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108 C-print photograms of the eyes of “54 American Downwinders and 54 Japanese a-bomb victims” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The display description reads, “Nuclear weapons affect everyone the same, no matter their nationality. As they collectively stare back at us, their eyes become a monument of nameless atomic testimonies.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"(Un)premeditated inheritance"
“108 WWII-era anti-aircraft rounds” full of the artist’s hair and trinitite, “a radioactive glass formed from the heat of the first atomic bomb testing in New Mexico,” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. Ito's grandfather worked to produce anti-aircraft bullets in an ammunition factory when the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Aborning New Light"
One of two scrolls listing “every nuclear weapon testing detonation that was conducted by the United States” on display in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The information is presented “chronologically, and including details such as the operation names, the individual tests, the dates and times, and location information,” according to the display description.
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Aborning New Light"
Two scrolls listing “every nuclear weapon testing detonation that was conducted by the United States” frame monitors showing archived footage of nuclear testing on American soil in the Kei Ito art exhibit titled “The Beginning, in the land around me” in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday. The archived footage is played in reverse and the display description reads, “Houses, school buses, and mannequins are reconstructed before our eyes while time counts down to a period before nuclear weapons and their extreme proliferation across the globe.”
- Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle