Sutra & Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration
February 26, 2022 - February 19, 2023 | JANM
Role: Archival Footage Editor, Projection Mapping + Animator of Bible scans
︎Official JANM page
“Sutra and Bible tells the stories of those faced with sudden, heartbreaking exile through an array of astonishing artifacts: from the prayer books and religious scrolls they carried into camp, to the Buddha statues, crosses, and altars they handcrafted to keep their spirits alive. At the heart of the exhibition are sacred scriptures created in camp: ink-inscribed stones that were unearthed from the Heart Mountain concentration camp’s cemetery that make up a section of the Lotus Sutra, and heavily annotated bilingual Bibles, handwritten by the Salvation Army’s Captain Masuo Kitaji during his incarceration in the Poston concentration camp.“
Animated Bible scans into a triptych, projection mapped onto gallery wall. For visual effect, layers were animated to magically appear onto the page.
Archival footage was used to convey the realities of religious practices in camp. Multiple home videos were edited and projected as single channel and multi-channel installations.
