The artist Guy Laramee has created a group of works he calls Guan Yin in response to his mother's death and to the Japanese tsunami, which occurred around the same time. From his description:
Everything we know, everything we did, everything we think we are, everything and everyone we love, all this will be wiped out. We would like to think that something will remain, culture, knowledge, or call it “life” if you don’t want to call it God, but of this also, we have no certitude. “No certitude” seems to be the only one we have, but even this is a concept, and concepts are the first thing to go down the drain, aren’t they ?
This project is dedicated to the mysterious forces thanks to which we can traverse ordeals.