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Stacked in three pockets of a clear display case, postcards in the lobby of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center showcase colorful, mid-century-style illustrations of three locations in the American South and West: Manzanar, Rohwer and Fort Sill.
McCormick junior and artist Lauren Fujishima created these postcards of Japanese internment sites in an effort to raise awareness surrounding the experiences of the 120,000 Japanese Americans and residents incarcerated during World War II.
“I’m very interested in appropriating art forms that already exist postcards, children’s books, movie posters, things that are naturally supposed to be super aesthetically pleasing and using those for other purposes,” Fujishima said. “I wanted to mock how people might view other groups of people’s history as fiction.”