Tatiana Ginsberg makes drawings, prints, books, and other things most of which use her own handmade paper. In addition to Sarah Lawrence, she studied at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara. In between, she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. As the Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné Paper Mill in New York City she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking. See more at: www.tatianaginsberg.art
This series is based on incidental patterns made in railway tickets by conductor’s punches. Collected during the period of time when my husband was visiting his father in the last year of his life, the punched marks are record of devotion and the passage of time. Magnified many times and separated from their original context, the punched marks become characters or figures, speaking their own asemic language. Many layers of freshly formed paper in a variety of colors and fibers are couched on top of one another, and a stencil is laid down. Water pressure is used to carve down into the paper where it is not protected by the stencil, revealing some of the colors in the layers below. In this way, the image is excavated rather than built up or drawn on the wet sheet.
"Punch IX"
2022
Handmade paper (abaca, linen, cotton), pigment
"Punch X"
2022
Handmade paper (abaca, linen, cotton), pigment