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Austin artist Teruko Nimura does her part to add to our society’s collective memory while at the same time growing more in touch with her cultural roots.
In her exhibition “Residual,” Nimura uses mixed media to explore several ghosts that continue to haunt her, including a miniature replica of the Japanese internment camp her father, Taku Frank Nimura, was forced to live in.
After Taku died when she was 8, Nimura says she used art as a way to connect with her father and learn about her Japanese heritage. "Our connection to our past, our history, is lost almost," says Nimura. "It's a strange place to be, to be straddling two worlds."
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The artist examines her father's history in Japanese interment camps.
