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Hannelore Baron

1979

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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.
Polychrome (yellow, red, and green) watercolor abstract shapes in center of paper. To the top left of painted form, a yellow spot (round) about 1 1/4 inch in diameter; gray rays.
Small porcelain sculpture, glazed white, in the form of a piece of bread with a small fish lying on top and a thin piece of white porcelain curling up that resembles a piece of lettuce, the fish is highlighted in light blue glaze in dots on his belly, on his fins and eyes.
Greenish black and white image on two abutted sheets of paper representing pieces of crumped paper with images of art and faces on them, a man with a turban, and a cow skull.