Tamiko Kawata
Breathing
Screen Print
16 x 22 inches
Edition of 50
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
Tamiko Kawata describes artmaking as her “diary in visual form.” She enjoys finding various everyday materials to make her visual diary. Experimental in nature, Kawata regularly incorporates safety pins, toilet paper, and chewing gum in her paintings—symbols of American and Japanese wastefulness, economic status, and industrialized lifestyle. A fan of visual letters, Kawata sends “inner messages” to certain people who help foster the therapeutic process of art-making: “With [my] work, I want to search for [a] peaceful mind as the world seems going into more and more turmoil. The process itself is meditative.”
—Adapted and excerpted fromhttps://serieproject.org/product/tamiko-kawata/, accessed 2-8-2022
