{"product_id":"balancing-cultures","title":"Balancing Cultures","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Jerry Takigawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBalancing Cultures\u003c\/em\u003e presents the work of a multi award-winning photography series about the artist’s family’s experience with the WWII American concentration camps. This project presented an opportunity to confront the racism perpetrated on the Japanese that resulted in their confinement in the American concentration camps sanctioned by President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 issued on February 19, 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAwakened by a discovery of old family photographs, taken in the Jerome, Arkansas camp, Takigawa was compelled to speak out in deference to his parents’ silence on the matter. Creating a visual journey through transitory collaged photographs using artifacts, documents, and memories resulted in a unique telling of one family’s journey from immigration to incarceration, re-integration, and re-assimilation. \u003cem\u003eBalancing Cultures\u003c\/em\u003e personifies a dark collective memory—long censored by the fear that if their voices were too loud, “it” might happen again. This work is important today because “it” is happening again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper: 96 pp.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JERRY TAKIGAWA DESIGN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50464935641136,"sku":"bir1790046501139","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/7531\/3456\/files\/balancing-cultures_1.jpg?v=1790046505","url":"https:\/\/unitardfitj.shop\/products\/balancing-cultures","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}