...especially difficult life. She described herself as a "mistake," unwanted by her wealthy parents, and was raised by a nurse until the age of twelve when she was turned over to a series of relatives and strangers, one of whom sexually abused her. Shortly after graduating from high school, Ishigo set out on her own, living a life she later described as "roaming the streets alone, looking for adventure." (1) While a student at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Ishigo met her husband, an experience that she described as love at first sight. Defying U.S. antimiscegenation laws, Ishigo and her future husband, Arthur, drove to Mexico in 1928 and married. Working as a teacher at the Hollywood Art Center on December 7, 1941, Ishigo was soon fired because she was married to a Japanese American man.

Ishigo spent most of her time while imprisoned, first at Pomona and later at Heart Mountain, documenting everyday life by drawing and painting. She worked in the Documentary Section of the Reports Division at the pay rate of $19 per month. As a War Relocation Authority employee, her artwork was government property and therefore seized by a U.S. archivist when she was released from Heart Mountain. Resisting government orders, she smuggled out many of her drawings and watercolors, carefully...

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