Fine Art Books

In 2007 I collaborated with Leila Farjami, an Iranian-American poet from Los Angeles, and I illustrated and made two hand-bound books for two of her poems that criticize the female/male roles in Iranian society.
here are some pages of the two books: Super Woman Sale and Vote for Superman. The books are 14 pages each, and are 8 x 5.5 inches, digital collage (inkjet prints) on paper.

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…And The Tech book displayed at the Night Market event. My book was a part of the Artists Reading Room installation book shelf, created by Victoria Heilweil, Oakland, CA, May 2011. 

Quotes in the book are by Sherry Turkle from Alone Together, why we expect more from technology and less from each other, 2011, published by Basic Books.

Cover/back Cover and Pages from … And The Tech., fine art quote book:

 Pantea Karimi, …And The Tech., Japanese binding method, 2011, 5.5x11 in. 

 inkjet prints, collage, text and vellum.

Secret Closet installation, 2011

The Love Letter series, the prints in the Secret Closet installation, is an ongoing body of work that mostly includes illegible texts in various compositions. The series draws inspiration from letters that people send to political authorities anywhere in the world, implicitly or explicitly recognizing their hegemony.

Below images and views are from the installation, Secret Closet, at the Togonon Gallery show room at the ArtPad SF art fair in the Phoenix Hotel, Fri.-Sun., May 19-22, 2011, San Francisco, CA.

          Pantea Karimi, Secret Closet, 2011, 6x2 feet, Love Letter series works (etching on paper), and hangers 
          Installation inside the gallery room's closet
 

 

View from the mirror

 

                                                       

Pescadero Land Art: Sunday, September 11, 2011

I participated in a Land Art project on Sunday September 11th, 2011; Irma Velasquez invited eight artists to her 80-acre coastal farm in Pescadero, CA to create site-specific installations. We each picked a place to work with and some worked individually and some in pairs.  

General rules at the farm were:
1. The sculpture must be temporary and the creation of it must do no harm to the land, flora and fauna.
2. If using plants, don't denude or kill them (unless they are invasive weeds)
3. If moving dirt, digging or stacking, be aware of wildlife which may be disturbed.
4. Use all degradable materials (e.g. jute rope to hold things together) or remove non-degradable after documentation.

I created Caution: Vegetable Garden using plastic materials and chopsticks right at the entrance of the farm. My piece was a commentary on manipulated environments caused by man-made additions, and altered natural landscapes due to excessive waste and over consumed industrial materials. It took me almost five hours to prepare the soil and plant. This installation piece is an extension of my 2010 mixed-media prints series, Mediated Senses, with focus on alternation of physical and virtual environments due to our increasing immersion in cyber-culture and digital technology. The installation came down on Oct. 1st, 2011.

The actual vegetable garden on the farm, not far from the Vegetable Garden installation

        

   View of the farm land from the hill, before I altered it with my Vegetable Garden piece

 Conditioning the soil for planting the plastic Garden

 Garden bed is prepared and ready for planting
 

The piece in process

Caution: Vegetable Garden in process of completion

Caution: Vegetable Garden, 2011, 7x7 feet, plastic materials, chopsticks, yellow caution tape, and wood blocks

Vegetable Garden, detail

Vegetable Garden, detail

View of the installation from the other side of the road

        

 View of the installation from the farm entrance

View of the installation from the hill after the completion of the piece