last Thursday
tsunami 2 was presented to
the new principal of the school in Minami Sanruki that i visited 2 years ago.
This school no longer has a school.
The buildings have gone…
although the GPS in the hire car says it is still there
as it does with many locations
ghosts hovering in a virtual landscape
Instead this school shares the buildings with another school.
next year the school itself will be merged with other schools.
What makes a school? Its buildings or its teachers and students?
anyway….
i presented tsunami 2 to the new principal…
explaining that it had been made by rope that i had found on my last visit, and the meaning behind the use of the gold-colored/copper wire etc…
(see earlier posts for more detail)
he said
he understood my thinking
(how reassuring as i was wondering if it was a crazy weird thing to be doing…)
and he hoped his school would be reborn
and thank you for thinking of us for the past 2 years……
no photos
just words
mind pictures
special moments
strange to wonder how and where and if this little nest hangs
now
Stefanie Robinson 