Annie Perkins-Rosenberg
Visual
- Describe your experience at the residency.
- My process was to use as many things as I could find readily available. Since I knew I wanted to do something on a piece of furniture, I wanted to focus on a recycled or previously used source for it. I found the chair at a Goodwill for $5, took it home and sanded the graffiti off of it. I assume it was used in a school because there was also gum stuck under it. Once it was sanded, I used paint I found in our garage that the landlord had left from painting our walls before we moved in. The fine line work was done with me by hand using ink. It was pain staking and made me kind of irate at times, uprooting a lot of frustration since I knew on a white background there is no room for error. The piece is named after a Japanese Moon God Tuski-Yomi. Japan has such a major impact living here in Seattle and one of my dearest friends Tomoko is from Japan. I wanted to make a piece dedicated to her for so long and couldnt find the right way, the right words or anything remotely worthy. Her and I have gone through a medical treatment now for almost a decade and there is not a day we do not talk. The bond I have with her will last lifetimes and I am so grateful for her.
- Tell us about the work you made — title and description.
- Tuski-Yomi Chair Wood, paint, ink on upcycled chair The story of Tuski-Yomi is beautiful as well. Tsukiyomi is the Japanese Shinto moon god, born from the right eye of the creator god Izanagi. In some tales, Tsukiyomi killed the food goddess Ukemochi for serving food from her nose and mouth, which offended his sister Amaterasu, which is why the sun and moon are separate from one another.
- Did you leave a token behind, or are you planning to ship one?
- Yes
- If yes, what is the title and medium of the token?
- Tuski-Yomi Chair Wood, paint, ink on upcycled chair