Next Project in Litho Series

An update for my Import/Immigrant project-- I am using another photograph of my great grandfather in his greenhouse. In my last project, I emphasized the idea that my family, as immigrants, believed that they owed their livelihood to America. To contribute and give back to the country, they became farmers to literally give nourishment to its citizens. This was more of an abstract idea, not one that I got directly from my ancestors, but merely my impression of what they must have felt. After looking through the documents that belonged to my great grandfather Kiyoshi, I found a letter that voiced this idea completely from the family preacher who was vouching for my grandfather's loyalty:
"I remember him constantly saying to his children and to his neighbors that Japan was his country by birth, but America is his country by adoption; Japan brought him into the world but it is America that reared him and brought him to maturity; he owes just as much if not more to this country than to Japan; that his children are all Americans; therefore, from the standpoint of his family he owes much more to America than to Japan. He used to stated that he could make the best possible contribution to this country, which is his country by adoption, by the way of farming, raising food-material essentially necessary for the welfare of the nation."
So, I wanted to use excerpts from this quotation so I can specifically address that idea. I am also choosing three flowers to represent piety, innocence/silence/devotion, and loyalty. I am going to make graphic version of the flowers and fill the greenhouse with them. Here is the partially manipulated photograph: