Ogatsu Ishinomaki 3/11 Tsunami Damage
This month at 2 Dogs Art Space there will be a Ogatsu Ishinomaki 3/11 Tsunami Memorial Exhibition featuring my artworks. Four and half months after the tsunami hit I went several times to Ogatsu Ishinomaki a fishing village with a Surgeon who was helping the people there to recover, these five trips lasted three days (I was donating paintings to temporary medical emergency centers).
I so admire the Japanese people with the way they worked together in achieving to get the community going again, it was humbling to see.
This image was taken out of the back of the car going into Ogatsu, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Morning over Ogatsu
The town was totally obliterated but strangely the place look so beautiful.
Fishing Town relics with distant smashed Ogatsu Fisherman's Coop
It was unbelievable to walk to this part of the Ogatsu village in the morning on the road, then in the afternoon you couldn't get there as the ocean tide came in and flooded the area and there were little fish swimming over the white line in the middle of the street.
These paintings remain unfinished.
Dr Peter Davidson
