"All That Remains"
In October 2018, the Virtual Painter group is
in Heshima, Japan...on The Ghost Island.
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I got very interested in this place and watched videos,
read what I could . In the 1890's it was
an undersea coal mine island...and that
was what existed there...the mining and the
workers...a village sprung up....then, the population grew to
5,259 living in high concrete bldgs..,,,crowded etc. In 1974
Minolta, who owned the mines , closed it all
down and gave the people 3 months to get off the island.
Thus it was abandoned and also felt
some Atomic Bomb effects....Now, tourists visit to
feel its eeriness...
1 comment:
Loved this piece of art. I was fascinated with the history of Hashima too, what a strange eerie place. I was going to do a painting via Virtual Paintout too, but somehow the time got away from me.
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