Dreams Of Noise

In the botanical gardens in Wellington, New Zealand, there is a small corner dedicated to a japanese shrine. Very peaceful, featuring a small pond with a lantern in the center. The lantern contains a flame that was first ignited by the Hiroshima bomb, and has been burning continuously ever since. It will be extinguished only when nuclear weapons have been eradicated from the earth. Also in the shrine is a building stone from the Hiroshima city hall that was at ground zero. The Japanese government gifted New Zealand with this flame (from a similar shrine in Hiroshima) and stone because of New Zealand's staunch support to end the nuclear threat.