My studio is right where the dentist sign is,
on top of the Higo Variety Store, Kobo at Higo.
I love being American, but we've done some dirty deeds, and I just,
I really feel it's important to talk about all of it
in order to change to grow.
So let's go out into the Chinatown International District
and see some of the public art that's around.
He really captured a lot of the neighborhood's history
in this piece, it's really cool.
And that fence is really cool, too, if you haven't ever looked at it.
It charts the population of the JA (Japanese American) community.
Yeah.
You know, having this work
on the street, you can sort of interact with it
on your own terms, and take your time with it.
When executive order
9066 was brought down,
Seattle-area people of Japanese ancestry, for the most part,
were sent to Minidoka.
My father was born there
and my mom's parents were matched there and married there.
I always attempt
to hold this balance between showing the serious
sort of tragedy of the incarceration story,
with the beauty and resilience of the community.
And also in aligning that story
with other things that have happened to communities of color,
you know, and thinking about liberation for everyone.
Thinking about making changes to the narrative of American history.