Details:

The painting, Fujii and Fukuko, incorporates a range of different elements, including photography from the U.S. National Archives and from online sources (see below), Japanese graphics and advertisements, digitized handwritten text, acrylic paint and charcoal particles.

Its subject is people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for "the cause". In this case, it's the Kamikaze, Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for their empire against allied forces during World War II. Kamikaze literally means "divine wind".

The handwritten text was exerpted from a web-published account written by Bill Gordon for the May 2006 reunion of survivors of the U.S.S. Drexler Survivors Reunion Association. The photographs of Fujii and Fukuko were appropriated from the same site. That website no longer exists, but another version of the story can be viewed here .