re-present reconstructs an earlier wall-based photo installation into a single, integrated collage, merging images from my family archive with national archival photographs of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. What was once dispersed becomes unified, creating an intentional shift toward coherence and shared meaning.

Drawing from Japanese textile traditions of boro and sashiko, the work treats repair as both structure and concept. Layered prints, typed text, and visible stitching function as interdependent elements, binding personal memory to collective history.

By merging ancestral and archival portraits, the work asks how history inhabits the present body and how acts of mending can reorganize fragmentation into continuity. The piece becomes a living structure of remembrance that resists erasure and proposes repair as an active, imaginative practice.