In the mid-1950s, Machiko Tomaru departed on a naval vessel from her native Japan with her US Marine husband and first child, embarking on the first leg of a long journey of personal re-invention in her new homeland.
With a concise selection of family photographs and archival immigration documents, Navigation touches on themes of assimilation and acculturation, while simultaneously functioning as a departure point for an expanded dialogue on contemporary immigrant experiences.
The zine was originally published and distributed in a public reading room organized by the Denver Zine Library as part of the exhibition “Citizenship: A Practice of Society”, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, in October 2020.
