"Nuclear Hemorrhage: Enewetok Does Not Forget"

Abstract

"Nuclear Hemorrhage:Enewetok Does Not Forget" Joy Lehuanani Enomoto (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 2] Joy Lehuanani Enomoto JOY LEHUANANI ENOMOTO is a Kanaka Maoli, Black, Caddo, Japanese, Punjabi, and Scottish artist, aloha 'āina and scholar, who currently lives on the slopes of Pu'owaina in Honolulu, on the island of O'ahu. She works as a lecturer of Pacific Islands studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Her artwork, "Nuclear Hemorrhage: Enewetok Does Not Forget," is a watercolor and stitched painting reflecting on the Runit dome, the concrete-capped storage facility that stores the radioactive waste from the sixty-seven nuclear tests conducted in Enewetok atoll, in the Marshall Islands, by the U.S. military. The dome is built at sea level and currently concerns are rising regarding the impact of sea level rise and climate change. The stitched fan coral rising out of the nautilus symbolizes the myriad of ways I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope (the future is behind us). The U.S. military tried to hide its violences beneath concrete caps, but those violences live in memories of the lands and waters and the peoples of the Marshall Islands. Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Minnesota