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Tara Donovan

2003

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Cole created this monumental print by embedding the perforated surface of an ironing board and twelve iron faceplates into a plywood sheet, flush to its surface. He then applied black ink to the whole and transferred the resulting image onto a sheet of white kozo-shi paper. The silhouetted image of the ironing board's surface resembles a historic slave-ship diagram, and the faceplate designs recall the facial scarification patterns worn by some tribal Africans.
Large wooden dress form painted red and covered with a variety of objects including small painted canvases, trivets, spools, synthetic flowers, nails, gourds, bottles, and other.
Bama Drive-in, Mobile, Al., James Beeland Bissell, hand-tinted gelatin silver print
A contiguous chain of light grey paper ovals adhered to a blank white field and running horizontally in the lower half of the paper.