Helena Meyer-Knapp

During this research project, I became aware that memorials often seemed to have a version of a particular kind of contemplative space and object: the round water sculpture. My observations never suggested that these attracted the attention of students. They did attract my attention. I even made a video putting sites in the US, Japan […]

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In Japan and in the US, there are now monuments honoring the very people who were considered pariahs during World War II. In both Okinawa and Hiroshima monuments and plaques now recognize the deaths of the many thousands of Koreans who were forcibly living as laborers in Japan. The statements and memorials in Hiroshima are […]

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