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Maboroshi means "phantom." Many cultures have folklore about lights that lure people into the water, to their deaths.

These photographs show locations specific to the Japanese American incarceration and untimely deaths. They are digital photographs made in an analogue way: using long exposures and a blinking flashlight.

Making the images functions as a license to be here: to walk around in the dark, conjuring ancestral spirits.