Unique
Add-on piece for ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN traveling exhibition
Price Available on Request
Up to One Year to Produce
Asian legend tells of a thousand paper cranes. It says that if you fold one thousand cranes within a single year, you will be granted a wish. The Japanese call it “Senbazuru.” Many people undertake this paper-folding pilgrimage as a wish for long life and good health. The single, white crane is a symbol of peace, but it is also a symbol of the soul or spirit. Cranes are known to mate for life, so when a thousand cranes are folded and given as a wedding gift, it is in the hopes that the marriage will be a long and happy one. Millions of people throughout the world have folded a thousand cranes as a wish for peace.
Box and his wife, Jennifer, created Master Peace, a sculpture of one thousand, cast metal cranes as their wish for peace. Five hundred of those cranes are scattered around the world as individual sculptures, and 500 are gathered here in this twenty-five-foot-tall monument. The artists made sure that all one thousand cranes were represented together, forever in the reflection.
“Rather than a monument to the tragedies of the past, we created a monument of hope for the future." - Jennifer Box
