Japanese internment sculpture story

A brown statue standing tall while showing us the sufferings and hardships people went through in the past

The brown statue reveals the sad and hard times people went through in the internment camp.

During the Japanese internment of World War ll people were locked away based on their ethnicity and treated as slaves doing labor work.

Artist Ruth Asawa was an American sculptor who gained interest in art during the Japanese internment.

Her bronze sculpture demonstrates the sufferings of the workers in the Japanese internment camp.

Sharp barbed wires surrounded the camp prison keeping in all the workers while the other side represented the farming.

Workers were shipped off in trains for labor work and kept them in small housing until the mines were ready.

The weather for workers was harsh and extremely hard to work since it was freezing.

Hats were blown away because of how hard the wind was hitting.

In one of the tents, Japanese officers would put up a star or picture to let the family members know they have someone who passed away in the family.

Suitcases piled up all over the car while a worker trying to load up all of the personal belongings of the Japanese.

Japanese Soldiers stood guard all over the camp with rifles.

Self portrait of Ruth Asawa assisting where she learnt art in the mines.

Icicles hanging down from houses which shows how cold it was for all the Japanese American workers.