My mother attended Gotanda School in her early elementary school years. I feel as though I have lived my life knowing very little about my mother, especially her past. Now that I have lost her, I can no longer ask her directly. I wanted to trace her childhood a little, so I walked around the Gotanda area where she was born and raised, and drew things that caught my eye. I hope that, through this project, I can get closer to my late mother and offer my own memorial to her. I imagined my mother returning to Gotanda, where she was born and raised, and to Mount Takeyama, as I continued to paint and reflect on those feelings.