.Hiya Swanhuyser

Bryan Ida, a Los Angeles-based artist who grew up Palo Alto and graduated from San Jose State University, will never know the exact emotions his grandfather was feeling in that moment, but he knows where he was headed: nearly 700 miles inland to Topaz Internment Camp in Utah, as one of 112,000 Japanese Americans – both first-generation and American-born – who were relocated from their homes on the West Coast and imprisoned within internment camps for no reason other than their heritage.