Let Me Count the Ways 109876 (2004)

The title simultaneously references the countdown to the dropping of the bomb and suggests anticipation Minus 10 juxtaposes footage of the artists father in Los Alamos and on the way to Tinian Island with an interview with a woman in Japanese about the bombing Minus 9 aligns an American nurses eyewitness account of the bombing and its aftermath with aerial landscape shots blocked by a blinking blue circle which could represent a mutant sun an eye planet Earth an afterimage or the inverted rising sun of Japanese national symbolism Minus 8 and Minus 7 show excerpts from a documentary The Growth of Plants overlaid by running text describing radiationinduced botanical mutations Minus 6 explores current American war policies and ethics contrasted against the histrionics of Adolf Hitler as the dictator gesticulates onscreen womens voices recite a diatribe by Goebbels