1000 & 2

So... this was posted on the everwise Lifelounge web site about a month ago...
It blew me away at the time but it's coming up soon(ish) so I thought I'd post a reminder
or let you know if you don't visit LL (you should! WTF are u doing!) The Piks are by Luke at LL
and the words (underthe piks) are by Katie and taken from the amazing interview she did with
Hiro. I saw Hiro at the opening of the "It's Not You It's Me" exhibition (which is also awesome
check it out) at Hogan Gallery on Smith Street last night and felt I had to let you know by letting others hard work speak for me :P









Katie found out that....

In May 2006 he (Hiro) embarked on an incredible, and ambitious, artistic mission and began individually painting one thousand used aerosol paint cans; some of which he used on other artworks, and some that were donated from friends and fellow artists Nails, Bonsai, Monkey and the Everfresh Crew. And, recently, after around 18 months, Two completed his final paintings and is (as he should be) pretty proud of them.

So why paint a thousand cans? Sadako Sakasi’s story was the inspiration. The Japanese girl was just two years-old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and she grew up healthy and strong. But at eleven years-old she was diagnosed with Leukaemia (also known then as the “atom bomb disease” as it was so often caused by radiation). She began folding a thousand paper cranes after a friend told her a Japanese myth which said that the gods grant a wish to anybody who completes the feat. Sakasi died just a year after her diagnosis.

See you at Bus for the opening... (bring a sixer, cause you know that shit always runs out)

To find out more about the exhibition and for Katie's full Two interview on Liflounge - click here