Future Memory – Tricycle, is a collaborative artwork by Akira Fujimoto and Cannon Hersey of "Shinichi’s Tricycle," one of the best-known artifacts on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Future Memory is an art project using 3D technology to create a multidimensional and sensorial record of objects, simultaneously preserving and presenting these artifacts in virtual perpetuity. The artworks resulted from over 30 journeys to Hiroshima, dialogues with survivors, reflections of history and writer John Hersey’s legacy. The collaboration has evolved over 8 years, with the partnership of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Future Memory - Tricycle was cast bronze at the Kunstgiesserei workshop in Switzerland, based on 3D data scanned with high resolution of Shinichi's tricycle and made into an actual- sized sculpture. The sculpture was completed with a minimum of welding and supplementary processing, without painting to resemble the real thing. The craftsmen at the workshop saw the hardened look of copper melted at 1,200 degrees Celsius, learned of our concept, and proposed to not add any finish but to leave it exactly as it came out of the extreme heat.
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Future Memory- Tricycle stands as a tribute to the victims of the atomic bombings of 1945 and to the work of civil society and other members of the international community, particularly states that have joined the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), towards the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Future Memory - Tricycle was made possible thanks to the support of the Tetsutani family. Along with all Hibakusha – the survivors of the atomic bombings – they wish for a peaceful world free from nuclear weapons.
The artwork was commissioned by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in honor of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and is on permanent display at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Artist : Akira Fujimoto / Cannon Hersey
Technical Support : Kosuke Nagata
Production Management / Design : Yuichi Kodai
Production : Kunstgiesserei Art Foundry
Producer : Taku Nishimae
Project Manager : Mari Ishiko
Cooperation : Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Support : 1Future
Organizer : ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)
Collection : International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
Photo Courtesy of 1Future