Please join our Crane Project! An Installation Piece of 1000 Paper Cranes to show our collective hope for a cure for cancer.
This project is inspired by the true story of Sadoko Sasaki, and a similar project that I participated in which was installed at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas in 2003.
The inspiration:
Sadako Sasaki lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States, Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home. When Sadako was 12 she developed swellings on her neck and behind her ears. In January 1955 she was diagnosed with leukemia (her mother referred to it as "an atom bomb disease"). She was hospitalized on February 21, 1955, and given, at the most, a year to live.
Sadako spent her remaining time in a nursing home folding origami paper cranes with the hope that she would make a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was to live. However, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died on 25 October 1955. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with her.
The project:
The Crane Project will be an installation of 1000(+)paper cranes, strung on thread and hung in the entry of the Ottoson. The cranes will hang first in the Ottoson but my hope is that they can also hang in other public areas in Arlington. (suggestions are welcome) to raise awareness and possibly to raise money to donate to research for a cure for cancer.
If you wish to participate here is what to do :
Please join other volunteers and students hosting a table at the JUNE 13th Relay For Life at AHS – where participants can fold a crane to honor their friends or family members.
Polly Ford [email protected]
This project is inspired by the true story of Sadoko Sasaki, and a similar project that I participated in which was installed at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas in 2003.
The inspiration:
Sadako Sasaki lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States, Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home. When Sadako was 12 she developed swellings on her neck and behind her ears. In January 1955 she was diagnosed with leukemia (her mother referred to it as "an atom bomb disease"). She was hospitalized on February 21, 1955, and given, at the most, a year to live.
Sadako spent her remaining time in a nursing home folding origami paper cranes with the hope that she would make a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was to live. However, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died on 25 October 1955. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with her.
The project:
The Crane Project will be an installation of 1000(+)paper cranes, strung on thread and hung in the entry of the Ottoson. The cranes will hang first in the Ottoson but my hope is that they can also hang in other public areas in Arlington. (suggestions are welcome) to raise awareness and possibly to raise money to donate to research for a cure for cancer.
If you wish to participate here is what to do :
- Fold as many paper cranes as you can.
- String paper cranes in groups of @ 10. If you like you can add beads to the strings to hold them in place but a needle and thread (and a stitch through the base of the crane.) is simple and works well.
- Deliver the Cranes to Polly Ford at OMS
Please join other volunteers and students hosting a table at the JUNE 13th Relay For Life at AHS – where participants can fold a crane to honor their friends or family members.
Polly Ford [email protected]
Sadako Sasaki's Story:
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or intervention art; however, the boundaries between these terms overlap.