Ghost Mother brown teenage years amidst the neon

teenage years amidst the neon lights and desert landscape of Reno

symbolic versions of a humanity which

a result of their internment with other Japanese Americans during WWII

My environment became condensed

Here there are places half remembered

Ghost Mother brown teenage years amidst the neonDetails About Artist Bio Shipping 13 x 22. 5 inches 2014 Oil on Wood Cupboard La. cu. na lk(y)oon noun: a gap or blank space in something, a missing part. The thing with memory is that it is imperfect. Details get foggy. Gaps form. Things may be remembered slightly differently than they happened or whole events may be remembered that never happened at all. Then there are the things that stand out in sharp relief against the hazy background. Things