Tierra Abierta / Open Country

<p><em>This is the only access Barrio Logan has left to their bay:</em></p><p><em>over the freeway--   navy ships   the bridge</em></p><p><em>ghosts of fisheries   and   canneries.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>I am looking for a particular ghost: a Japanese American</em></p><p><em>fishermen's village before the forced incarceration in 1942.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Tierra Abierta / Open Country</em> is a poetic auto-ethnography in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. Through photographs interviews and reflections on everyday life in the shadow of gentrification artist Scott Oshima explores the zone where space memory and erasure intersect.</p>