Punch 3

Media: Blow-out in pigmented abaca, linen, kozo, and cotton fibers

Statement:
This series is based on incidental patterns made in railway tickets by conductor’s punches. Collected while my husband was visiting his father in the last year of his life, the punched marks are record of devotion and the passage of time.

Punch 4

Media: Blow-out in pigmented abaca, linen, and cotton fibers, with aluminum dispersion

Statement:
Incidental patterns made in railway tickets by conductor’s punches become the source material for these characters that speak their own asemic language. Layers of paper are couched on top of one another, a stencil is laid down, and water pressure is used to carve back down through the wet sheet.

Punch 6

Media: Blow-out in pigmented abaca, linen, kozo, and cotton fibers

Statement:
Layers of freshly formed paper in various colors and fibers are couched on top of one another; a stencil is laid down, and water pressure is used to carve down into the paper, revealing colors below. In this way, the image is excavated rather than drawn into the wet sheet.

Biography

Tatiana Ginsberg studied at the University of Iowa before spending two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné Paper Mill, she works with artists and she exhibits her own work internationally.

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