This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami. 2011
Energy map of the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami in Japan
Three years, three months, and 12 days later, Manabu Ikeda's 'Rebirth,' is nothing short of epic.
Keita Morimoto is a visual artist working in Toronto, Ontario. Morimoto was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and moved to Canada in 2008 in order to pursue his education at OCAD University. He has exhibited his work in several group shows around Toronto, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, as well as participated in a number of charity auction events to raise money for Japan relief after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and the tsunami that followed, Japan was hurting badly, but almost six years later the country has rebuilt. And Manabu Ikeda, a pen & ink artist, went through a similar process with the just recently finished massive drawing called Rebirth.
Artist Luke Jerram has taken a 9 minute excerpt from the 2011 Tohoku Japanese earthquake and tsunami seismogram and transformed it into a