Sadako Sasaki

Artist: Mark Raats (All)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Sadako Sasaki
Artist:	Mark Raats (All)
Media Type:	Marker
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,409
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	3/14/2013
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Description

My modest contribution to a collection of art being done as a tribute to Sadako Sasaki

Sadako was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The explsion blew her out of the window and as a result of the explosion and radiation, she was diagnosed with leukemia in 1955 and given a year to live.

Sadako's friend - Chizuko Hamamoto - came to the hospital to visit her, and cut a gold piece of paper into a square to fold it into a paper crane, in reference to the ancient Japanese story that promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods. The story goes that Sadako fell short of her goal of folding 1,000 cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her.

Copic Markers, Prismacolor pencils and white paint on Acid free paper - 16.5 x 11.5 inches.

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About the Owner

	Mark Raats
Joined:	March 2013
Last Login:	February 2021
Website:	http://www.markraats.com
Country:	AUSTRALIA
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Mark Yanko
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/14/2013

What an amazing story. And what an amazing piece of art.

Mark Raats
Member Since 2013

Posted on 3/15/2013

Mark Yanko wrote:

What an amazing story. And what an amazing piece of art.

Thank you Mark. I sincerely appreciate your kind words sir..

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