Ever since the March 11, 2011 triple meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants in Japan — arguably the worst nuclear disaster on planet earth — my art has focused on various aspects of nuclear energy. Worries about nuclear radiation effects haunt me. As a result I have been creating artworks exploring the complicated results of radiation due to the meltdowns.

For many years I have been making art reflecting my concern about man-made climate and land destruction. In the past I painted a series about the Iraq war; the melting of ice; and the dire plastic pollution saturation. Then one day, seemingly out of the blue, I had the clear inspiration to confront my worries about nuclear radioactivity… something I knew very little about.

Entering the arena of nuclear power discussions is like walking into an amphitheater deeply flooded with doubt, controversy, contradictions and alarm.

As an artist, I have chosen to tread into the waters of painting the source of atomic energy — uranium – and document some effects of radiation poisoning.

My painting, “This Land is No-Man’s Land”, depicts a segment of destroyed and abandoned land in the Japanese Fukushima Prefecture.

This artwork illustrates radioactive rods immersed in water inside a nuclear reactor. The painting is part of my series relating to nuclear energy and especially to the alarming radioactive situation at the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear meltdowns in Japan.

I have asked myself what can I do, as an artist, about the worst industrial calamity in human history – the triple meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. I am overwhelmed by the unprecedented scope of this disaster.

This is the fourth in my series of artwork about nuclear energy. My painting depicts only one of 30 million plastic storage bags stuffed with radioactive waste in the Fukushima area in Japan. These bags are part of a seemingly futile effort to clean up contaminated soil in the area.

The third painting in my art series about the dangers of nuclear energy took a direction of its own as the work developed. I started this canvas by creating an image of a plastic storage bag filled with radioactive waste from the Fukushima meltdown.

This picture, “Nine Million Bags and Counting #2,” is my second in a series about nuclear energy. I am deeply concerned about the dangers posed by past, current and future nuclear power development and the dilemma posed by nuclear waste disposal.