My parents immigrated to the United States in 1981. My brother and I were born the following decade Americans. Everyone else - cousins, aunts, uncles, husbands and wives, grandma and grandpa - still live in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. A culture and life that was supposed to be mine has been split between these two very different worlds, with my heritage in Brazil losing to the weight of American life. The language barrier and culture shock grows stronger with every passing year, and I have become a tourist in my own family. We are all new people every time. Muito saudade. These photographs were made from scanned chromogenic prints shot with Kodak Ektar 100. The blurred and diffused borders around the images were created using a filed-out negative carrier. This aesthetic helped to communicate the blurred lines of this border between worlds and distant memories of childhood.