This 12-by-26-inch horizontal panorama presents a second portrait of Ed Ezaki on Stoneybrook Street in Cleveland—continuing the documentation begun in “No. 1” and exploring different approaches to representing this survivor of Japanese American incarceration within his contemporary Cleveland environment.

Created in 2004, the work complements the first Ezaki portrait, the smaller dimensions and different proportions suggesting alternative perspectives on the same subject. The horizontal format emphasizes environmental context, placing Ezaki within the Stoneybrook Street landscape that represents his post-incarceration life.

The paired portraits demonstrate Hayashi’s sustained engagement with individual survivors, the multiple studies creating more comprehensive documentation than single portraits would allow. Different lighting, positions, or moments captured across the two works together provide richer testimony than either alone.

The photo collage technique fragments and reassembles these environmental portraits, the process echoing the way memory itself operates—multiple moments collapsed into singular identity, different perspectives on the same life story accumulated over time.

Cleveland’s Japanese American community, to which Ezaki belongs, developed partly through the War Relocation Authority’s resettlement program that encouraged internees to relocate away from the West Coast. The Stoneybrook Street setting documents one outcome of that resettlement program: a Japanese American life rebuilt in Ohio after incarceration’s disruption.