Dead Fish Floating In Temple Ponds
Personal memory by Mian Osun
2020 CE • Nara, Japan
The water pollution and heat have killed off a lot of fish so that every time I visit my hometown there are dead fish floating in the temple ponds."
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
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