digitalsediment
2023
Tule Lake, Poston, Rohwer, Jerome, Topaz, Granada, Heart Mountain, Manzanar, Gila River, Minidoka
The images below are landscapes of Japanese incarceration sites enmeshed, layered, and subverted to create new landscapes; what does land that holds so much grief look like as digital sediment?
Inputting names of Japanese incarceration cites with the word landscape: “________ landscape” into a search engine to scour the internet for evidence of the land that my ancestors were incarcerated on
What do the sites of incarceration look like 80 years after they were erased of the structures used to imprison people?
To take those photos and compress them into plains
To bend and warp that stillness into land itself for freedom that we can both witness