Balance Sheet, by Tsilli Pines.
15% of the sale of this print goes to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Tsilli Pines has been working as a graphic designer for over 10 years and has designed award-winning projects for Francis Ford Coppola’s Rubicon Estate, SB Architects, and David Bowie. Her client work has appeared in STEP, HOW, and Print.
She designs and makes Jewish marriage contracts under the name New Ketubah, where she seeks to marry a traditional art form with modern design. She also runs a line of modern Judaica under the name Alef Betty.
Her art practice spans photography and works on paper. She is interested in numbers, human systems, ordinary moments, and the life of the mind. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
About the print:
In 2008 I made a series called "The Figures" which explored the topography of money in human consciousness, and the constant parade of numbers in everyday life. This past May, the New York Times Magazine asked me to revisit the themes from that series for their money issue. This was one of the unpublished pieces that emerged from that exploration, as I considered the fractured state of things now.
This is an archival ink jet print on 100% cotton 300 gsm Moab Entrada natural paper. Each print was signed and numbered by the artist.
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What has inspired you recently?
I'm inspired by the way people hold each other up in tough times.
Why did you choose to pair Médecins Sans Frontières with your print?
We have a system of worth that doesn't always recognize the things that are worth the most. It is such important work to provide care for people, regardless of all the systems that can divide and devalue lives.
How have you seen art transform the world around you?
Art connects people with their humanity, and that's the basis of all transformation.
If you could pick one artist to mentor you, who would it be?
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the studio of Charles and Ray Eames. Their body of work is inspiring, but the spirit in which they did it is even more so. They had a sense of play and fearlessness in approaching new media and materials.
Who are some artists you think people should know about?
I love the intimacy in the work of Elinor Carucci and Phillip Toledano. And I'm inspired by my friends Jolie Guillebeau, Nilobon Kijkrailas, Sarah Landwehr, and Nik Bresnick.
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