A Children's Prayer for Peace

24" X 32" - acrylic on canvas, paper, brass

Part of the series - "This Fragile Planet"

The origami crane, long a symbol of health and longevity has, in recent years, become the Japanese children's prayer for an end to all war, forever. To understand how this came about read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Canadian-American author, Eleanor Coerr, and published in 1977. It is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, who set out to fold a thousand origami cranes when dying of leukemia from radiation caused by the bomb.