HANAMI (花見)
2018 - 2021

'Hanami (花 見)' is an artist's book that involves the digitization and editing of an extensive archive of photographs, collages, newspapers, texts and personal objects that Keiichi Inokawa (my grandfather) — Japanese immigrant landed in Brazil as a child — produces and has been collecting for over 60 years. The archive, organized in dozens of books and folders, is still being manually cataloged and bounded up to this day by Keiichi.

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The work seeks to express the tensions between the imaginary and the real, formed from my grandfather's nostalgic feeling for his homeland and his constant obsession with creating meaning for the spaces and times witnessed. Similarly, it seeks to represent the acceptance and affection for the daily life of an arranged marriage despite his desire to venture out into the world and write stories.