The international art exhibition, “The Edge of Awareness”, was held from April 1998 through 1999 at WHO headquarters in Geneva as the memorial event. Before opening of the exhibition, The Bombed Kaki tree Jr. was planted in front yard of WHO headquarters in April 18th, 1998. Ms. Adelina von Furstenberg who was an organizer of the exhibition initiated planting a kaki tree. This came up with the content of exhibition that including finding new receivers of kaki trees.
Following speeches from Dr. Ebinuma, Ms. Hiromi Ebinuma, and Mr. Crisel who was the director of health and environments department, messages from the Mayor and the governor of Nagasaki were introduced in the planting ceremony. And “The Peace Bell” was gifted from mayor of Nagasaki. Children planted baby trees with holding scoops in their hands. After the ceremony, Mr. Michal Galasso, who is an American violinist, came for this and played “Original music for Kaki Tree”, that he created. The music has beautiful melody repeated with a little change. That strongly impressed many people who participated the ceremony.
During the exhibition, the board of kaki tree was set behind the tree to let everyone who involved the project or citizens in Geneva to write messages on it. In the end, the board used to be white seemed black with filled by so many messages.
This exhibition retrospective that went around the world, at UN headquarters in New York in September 1998, Saw Paulo, Brazil in December 1998, and New Delhi, India in March 1999. We recruited for participating kaki tree projects during the exhibition.
