Conversation Pieces is a portable exhibit experience and discussion space rooted in my personal family archive as well as a lifetime of collecting.

When I posted a picture of my grandmother kissing another woman, I unexpectedly opened a very large public conversation that reached millions of people. The image became more than a piece of my private family history; it became an opening for how to tell my own story, too.

Alongside support from Zioness, my vision for Conversation Pieces began to take shape: a documentary and photographic approach to different aspects of my identity, including Jewish, Indigenous Okinawan, LGBTQ, and more, used as a prompt for deeper public conversation.