Ancient Memory
2024
Manzanar, personal documents, photo, video, sound
16:9, 5 min., 36 sec.
A reminder of the suffrage and resilience of the Nikkei community who endured the 3 year long stint at Manzanar using the artist’s connection to incarceration history through personal documents, land, and poetry. Footage taken from a 2024 trip to Manzanar, a former Japanese incarceration site, is edited together with photographs of the site in the 1940s when it was in active use as a detention facility.