Displaced from their homes and stripped of many personal belongings, incarcerees were tasked with rebuilding daily life in stark and unfamiliar environments. Situated largely within the deserts of the Western United States, inhabitants often faced extreme weather conditions with high heat and severe dust storms in the summer, and freezing temperatures in the winter. Within these landscapes, various creative practices became a critical site of psychological, social, and environmental reclamation. Arts and crafts served as more than aesthetic distractions; they were profound assertions of agency and cultural continuity, allowing individuals to transform militarized spaces into inhabitable, somewhat familiar ones.
Prepare the petals by folding and cutting the pink pieces of crate paper. Repeat the same folding, measuring, and cutting process, with the B, C, and D pages.
