Figured I should probably post this on here cause I never remember to but here’s what I’ve been working on for the past two weeks!
I’ve been calling it my insanity project and you’ll be able to see why in a sec-
That is a list of names, specifically the names of every person that was interned at Amache, the Japanese Internment camp that my family was imprisoned in during WWII. There were just over 10,000 people that were there at one point or another in the three years it was in operation with a peak population of over 7,000 at one time. Keep in mind Amache was the smallest of the camps and over 125,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the US government
I have been hand writing out every single name of those that were imprisoned at Amache
This project was inspired by the Ireizō book that has been at the JANM in Los Angeles that I got the privilege of visiting with my mom and aunt and stamping the names of our relatives
My project is organized by birth year like the Ireizō is and I’ve gotten up to halfway through 1892 so I’ve still got quite a bit to go
You can read more about the monument here, it’s truly amazing- the website also has a searchable database of everyone interned
National Names Monument Honoring Persons of Japanese Ancestry Incarcerated in the U.S. During WWII
Here’s more closeups on my project so you can see just the sheer scale of how huge this is- I crashed procreate at least 3 times while pasting in the list of names
Eventually when I get to the kanji characters the lettering will be red on the black so I think it’ll look cool but I still have a ways to go.
