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Recognized September 6, 2026

The Peace Walk as root

Global Peace Walk 2000 as the shared root of Art Collision and Mediums of War: The Global Peace Walk 2000 (San Francisco to New York, events at American University and elsewhere in DC with Native spiritual leaders, arriving in New York for the UN's 55th anniversary) is already on record as Art Collision's philosophical turning point. Stated this session as also underlying Mediums of War, made twenty-plus years later: the same peace-oriented conviction turned toward a direct examination of war. Explicit stated intent: the paintings exist in part to make people 'look again and remember that we need peace.' Background: the walk followed the Nipponzan Myōhōji tradition of walks reenacting the Trail of Tears as meditation; a monk named Yamato, who participated in walks since the 1970s and in a 1995 walk, is recalled by the artist as involved, held as artist-remembered history without external documentation (the walk was deliberately low-media).