This made me think of two similarish things in the UK: 1)In Kew gardens there is a Japanese "Minka" house that was donated to Kew by the Japanese government. I

This made me think of two similarish things in the UK: 1)In Kew gardens there is a Japanese "Minka" house that was donated to Kew by the Japanese government. It was lived in by a Japanese family in Nagasaki after their home was bombed in 1945, and some time later was transported to Kew piece by piece and rebuilt using traditional methods.[1] The house itself is a beautiful and simple wooden house and sits in a lovely bamboo garden inside Kew (which is of course also very lovely) and seems to me based on its history a sort of quiet protest against nuclear war. 2) "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" is an extraordinary artwork by Cornelia Parker at the Tate Modern. The artist took her garden shed with all of its contents and blew it up with explosives and made this artwork comprising two parts. The first is a video of the explosion on a loop so you see the shed exploding and coming back into a single piece over and over again. The second is the installation, which is a sort of "real life freeze frame" of an instant in the explosion in which all the fragments are suspended from the ceiling in the positions they were in at that moment and lit by a single source so it casts very dramatic shadows.[2] [1] https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/bamboo-garden-and-minka-house https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/bamboo-... [2] https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parker-cold-dark-matter-an-exploded-view-t06949 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parker-cold-dark-matter...