Poston Provenance

Poston Provenance is a photographic series based on my Japanese family's relocation to Poston Concentration Camp in Poston, Arizona, and how the residue of that intergenerational trauma has been passed down to me and been reborn in hope and beauty from what my grandparents, aunts, and uncles endured. The series is filled with ephemeral objects, images, and records of the Sakai family and their experience during World War II and the post-war era, then juxtaposed with images from my own photographic practice that echo what has gone before, but with a new reverberation. Provenance means "the place of origin or earliest known history of something." The origin of their experience is where I find my own creative inspiration as the next author of a chapter in their book.