Creating an art installation of family memories of displacement and forced migration

Abstract

This photo-essay presents the creation of the artworks for the installation Scattered Seeds of the Cotton Bolls about my Japanese family’s displacement and forced migration during WWII, as a series of activities in which memories, reflections, emotions, images, desires for healing and connecting with others, and beauty emerged and interacted in the context of the Covid pandemic. The creative process was multidirectional, as the activities and my physical contact with the materials concatenated with other activities during which the creation of the artwork took effect.