Lot 4: Journey to the Edge of Land

ZARINA (B. 1937)
Journey to the Edge of Land
each signed and dated 'Zarina '94' (lower right); each editioned '6/20' (lower left); first five numbered in Roman numerals I-V (lower centre)
etching on Arches cover white paper and chine colle with handmade Nepalese paper
6 x 5 in. (15.2 x 12.7 cm.) each
Executed in 1994; edition 6/20
Set of six (6)

Mumbai, Bodhi Art, Weaving Memory, 1990 - 2006 , 2007, illustrated (unpaginated)

Pacific States Nation Biennial Print Exhibition, Hawaii, 1994

"In these etchings with chine colle, aquatint, spit bite, lithograph crayon and marks made with an electric tool play texture against the grid that attempts to control their seeming randomness. It consists of six prints, the first five repeating the grid and the name of the portfolio while the sixth simply titled 'Edge of Land' breaks with that structure to create a form that resembles a section of the globe. This unites the particular experience of being the edge with the latitudes and longitudes of the macro world."
(Joyce Brodsky, 'The Imprint of a Transnational Life,' exh. cat., Weaving Memory 1990 - 2006 , Bodhi Art, 2007.)