Victoria Moore - Atomic Babylon - Awareness Fundraiser

1963 S. Coast Hwy.,Laguna Beach CA 92651

24 November, 2021

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Join us for an important event to raise awareness and funds to support Veterans and their children affected by atomic radiation. Victoria Moore Fine Art, on behalf of Childrenofatomicveterans.Org and StillGlowing.Org, is honored the Smithsonian National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada accepted her initial artist proofs on Atomic Veteran's Day, July 16th, 2021. https://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org The Atomic Babylon paintings are deeply personal yet globally relevant. Using art to raise awareness or raise funds is not new. Art is often used as a window to the past of what specific generations or societies felt worthy of memorializing on canvas to preserve for future generations. Frontline communities are acutely aware how the development of global nuclear weapons and energy industries have left their marks and scars upon the land, sea and upon humanity. “Historically art has been one of societies inherited tools to reflect upon itself and their progress. The Atomic Babylon Collection of paintings are one way for me to leave lasting impressions and spark conversations for future generations.” “Putting my art into action, the original paintings will be auctioned at a later date as a way to bring awareness to the Atomic Veterans and their families globally with a portion to benefit the genetic transgenerational research Projects associated with ionizing radiation exposure. We are excited with expanding options in traditional and emerging markets.” Dates and details will follow at StillGlowing.org Victoria’s story may be unique, but she is just ONE of many. Her atomic family has given her such support since she became aware she could talk about it in 2007. Victoria is a living lab rat. “It really was an isolated family of us, clustered in silence for over four decades.” Her goal with the Atomic Babylon collection is to raise awareness, funds and an ongoing mechanism to support relevant trans-generational research projects. Kathy Sinai and I are dedicated to raising awareness for our communities and seeking self-care solutions globally if we leverage the scientific advances and fund-raising opportunities in the private sector. StillGlowing.org, as a legacy project, recognizes that nuclear weapons, energy, including their fuel chain and waste sectors, carry inherent risk factors for ionizing radiation exposure to occur. Many families are experiencing the transgenerational fall-out now. Raising awareness that modern genetic research and testing has solutions can help us help ourselves. ​Contributions are tax deductible to the limit the law allows for our 2021 PROJECTS listed at StillGlowing.Org https://www.instagram.com/still_glowing_2021/ https://www.instagram.com/children_of_atomic_veterans/ INTO THE MYTHIC (Below) Through a broader lens I have begun to better understand the experiences of our U.S. Atomic Veterans, the Marshallese islanders and the Cleanup Veterans, whose decades of suffering and abandonment is tragic in its face. "The mornings of the two suns" is a term I have often heard about the test blasts, whether they took place on or off-shore. The ship depicted is the U.S.S. ESTES, command ship in the Pacific Proving Grounds for most test series, from which most Lookout Mountain Productions films were produced. The image of a women walking though life, dragging her broken DNA behind here, blowing in the wind like a concussion blast blowing your future apart. . Ionizing radiation leaves a ghost in the genes of those exposed for their families future generations to worry about. And they are worried. She stands as a symbol of the documented escalated risks to women from ionizing radiation that continue to go under-recognized in industrial risk charts serving both the energy and weapons sectors, including their fuel and waste chains. The U.S. military servicemen men that were sent to clean up the radioactive debris in the 1980's from 66 atomic tests in the Pacific (from 1946-1959) were put at even more intensified risk. The shear concept of burying tons of radioactive debris with a 27,000 shelf-life in shorts and shoes mostly, without basic protection gear is beyond comprehension, but it happened. We have been as invisible as the ionizing radiation that has blown so many families apart with transgenerational health consequences. Join us for this important awareness fundraiser auction in collaboration with UNESCO CENTER FOR PEACE California + Baja California.