Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Susan Leal, GENERAL MANAGER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION and Inge Infante, ARTIST
Tag: Printmaking
A Prayer for Transformation
Beyond destruction, jealousy, rage, hatred, separation, revenge.
Toward creation, compassion, reconciliation, transformation.
Untitled
Ballot Box
Fabricated Fame
Today’s celebrities seem to all be coming out of some celebrity machine. Behind the glitz and glam, the expensive cars and fancy clothes, are producers and stylists that give celebrities their identities. They all strive for the ideal image but in the process they become copies of each other. I made my box into a gaudy, sparkly representation of fame. I’ve carved in idealistic image of a figure into the lid of the box and created prints from it. The prints show how celebrities are simply produced copies that are made to be this ideal.
We Are Women
The same feminine figure reproduced several times gives different connotations upon being cut, sewn, or separated. All the figures are prints and the collection is attached to the box by a layer of paraffin.
Gebundelt – Bundled – Focused
America is Watching
The images on my box are from a series of relief prints in response to the U.S. Attorney General’s “TIPS” program. The program recommends that citizens keep an eye on one another and then inform the government of any suspicious activity. As disembodied doll eyes peer out from the inside of the box, images of men and women watching in various ways surround the exterior.
Remnants
Remnants references my many, may years as a working artist, particularly as a printmaker. I selected remnants from 30 years of art-making into the contained box, making my own sort of small “retrospective”. Working on this piece brought up a wide spectrum of memories, thoughts and emotions – and the toil and labor that go into a work of art. I consider myself a very fortunate person.
Tell Me Show Me
Women have always been teachers of those who are in the dark.