The Gungulus is shown here in its finished form in granite. It survived the transcontinental voyage better than you or I will survive a nuclear explosion.

A number of viewer comments might interest you:

From the stonecarvers - "The article is unimaginable. We believe your excellent work and creativeness will be famed the world over. Let's have more cooperation in the future, and we hope we can being the strong support for you."

From Ohio - "The piece looks great. I hope you have a chance to make it large enough to get it polished! Their facility looks impressive (if a little dusty!) Let's hope the days of surreptitious communication are over, and we can find the means to interact openly, we'll certainly need it to survive."

From France - "Your 'Gungulus' is a very interesting and humanist project. I totally agree with you about your philosophical commitment. We are in a crazy world. If all the countries which spend a lot of money for the military purposes would decide to spend a part of this money for solving the basic problems of the Humanity (access to water, food, education, care and health...) we would avoid 99% of the wars and conflicts. But I'm pessimistic: I think that a majority of the people who have the economical and political power in their hands don't want at all the PEACE. Wars and conflicts are more "profitable" for the industry, the enslavement of the masses, etc."

From Mexico - "About a dozen years ago I read an anthology called The Twisted Iris, stories in translation by Japanese writers, maybe all women, about the devastation, radiation, terror. I remember the power of the stories just as I will remember your images."

To all of you, I might add: The Gungulus is painful to look at, but it is even tougher to face what we are capable of as human beings. In some sense we are all responsible for what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's the leaders we choose, the fear that keeps us silent, the questions that gnaw at us in the middle of the night. Just how do we confront evil? How far are we willing to go?