Sarah Nguyen is a multimedia artist. Her Open Spaces project, “Break into Blossom,” is based on a thought experiment: how would the world have turned out differently if the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 had never exploded?
Nguyen is a multimedia artist living and working in rural Missouri. Her Open Spaces project, Break into Blossom, is based on a thought experiment: how would the world have turned out differently if the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 had never exploded? In Nguyen’s reimagining, Little Boy turns out to be a dud, and instead of detonating, passes through a cherry tree, lands with a thud, and over the years gathers moss and lichen, where we encounter it today in an artificial pastoral setting in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, surrounded by cherry blossoms.
Free
Email: info@openspaceskc.com
2018/08/25 - 2018/10/28
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
500 W. U.S. Highway 24, Independence, MO 64050