Video installation & photography, 2012

Using a collection of miniature family photographs, light and video projection Panorama, Series I explores the first phase of an ongoing work in response to familial remembrances of the Japanese Canadian internment through the process of re-looking and re-imagining the traumatic narratives that are caught  in the stillness of a photograph. The small photograph and light installations depict a single moment; the ‘flash’ as the camera captures a single frame now carried forward in this present moment.  The miniature landscapes of memory integrate photographs such as one taken with a homemade pinhole camera in the internment camp in Slocan, B.C. despite regulations of confiscating all cameras.

This work was originally part of the group exhibition YO-IN Reverberation featuring artists Nobuo Kubota, Kazuo Nakamura, Emma Nishimura, Louise Noguchi, Jon Sasaki, Aiko Suzuki and Shizuye Takashima at the Nikkei National Museum, Burnaby, B.C.