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DESCRIPTION:<strong><em>Desert Sands</em></strong>\nPhotographs by Emily Ha
 nako Momohara\nwith art from internment camps\nJanuary 24 - March 15\, 200
 9\n<a href="http://www.oregonnikkei.org/exhibits.htm#momohara">Exhibit inf
 ormation</a>\n<em>Through photography\, I create my own versions of the pa
 st as they relate to my current world. They are constructions\, interpreta
 tions\, illusions\, and myths of what happened. The imagery is a personal 
 journey of discovery and loss.</em>\n- Emily Hanako Momohara\n\nEmily Hana
 ko Momohara is a sansei and Assistant Professor of Art\, Photography at th
 e Art Academy of Cincinnnati. During World War II\, her family was sent to
  Minidoka (she hails from the Seattle area)\, located in southern Idaho\, 
 where most of the Oregon Nikkei affected by internment were relocated. She
  struggles to understand the legacy of that experience\, and her journey t
 o find this heritage is the springboard for her artwork.\n\n<em>The physic
 al remnants of the incarceration camp have become shrine-like in my mind. 
 Sand\, sagebrush\, barbed wire\, and pottery shards have replaced the stor
 ies that are lost from my family’s experience. In the </em>Desert Sands<
 em> series\, I have used sand in various ways to bury\, build\, obscure\, 
 and reveal the experience of my family members. This methodology refers to
  archaeology\, burial and death\, and the desolation of the desert. I use 
 objects that symbolize the holes in my family stories: the Japanese cultur
 e my family was ashamed of during the war and incarceration.</em>\n- Emily
  Hanako Momohara\n\nHer photography series <em>Desert Sands</em> will be o
 n display January 24 through March 15\, 2009. Accompanying <em>Desert Sand
 s</em> will be a series of black and white photographs taken at the Minido
 ka site by Ms. Momohara\, as well as an exemplary exhibition of art made b
 y residents of the internment camps (primarily Minidoka and Tule Lake).\n\
 nOregon Nikkei Legacy Center\n121 NW 2nd Ave.\nPortland\, OR  97209\n503-2
 24-1458\n<a href="http://www.oregonnikkei.org">www.oregonnikkei.org</a>
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening: Desert Sands
URL:/en/events/2009/01/24/exhibit-opening-desert-sands/
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