Visual and Informative References

When I was in grad school I did some research on an artist I find interesting. His name is Osamu James Nakagawa. Nakagawa has done work based on Identity. One if his series of works is called Kai: Following the Cycle of Life http://osamujamesnakagawa.com/?images=kai&i=statement, and another is called Ma: Between the Past http://osamujamesnakagawa.com/?images=ma&i=statement. Both series focus on connections between past, present, and future. In his Ma series, he appropriates images and momentos from the past. I found the use of repetition and the nostalgic feeling of the works very compelling. It kind of reminds me of a work that I created in high school using some old family photos that belonged to my dad, who was adopted. The work was about how he came from one family, coinesdently with the name Holiday, and adopted by the Holliday's. I used repetition of text and old photos that I altered using photographic processes such as cyanotype and lith prints.
I want to reference Nakagawa's works in order to inform my own working process. Here are a few of the images that stood out to me most. These are all from his website: http://osamujamesnakagawa.com/?p=images