Japanese Americans sought to build a sense of community within the bounds of the internment camps during World War II using participation in religious activity.
The photographer Carrie Mae Weems creates narratives which bring marginalized people into the center of focus. Weems mobilizes herself as artist and as subject in order to engage with issues much larger than herself.
This work comes out of the desire to produce a visual representation of the wounds Indigenous women have faced in postcolonial society and show through the healing process that their dreams and realization of the future can be made. Utilizing traditional weaving methods to create dreamcatchers, I wanted to combine that method with embroidery and color.