Seeing the survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake restoring their communities and wiping away their grief had a profound effect on artist Yoshihito Kawase. “Rather than illustrating the direct impact from visiting the destruction for myself, I decided to create a work to portray my experience of the disaster, memory of the lost lives, and the optimistic outlook to rebuild.”

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