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Pirated: a post asian perspective
DONNA KEIKO OZAWA
Bio
DONNA KEIKO OZAWA I s a third-generation Californian living in Berkeley.
She received her MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. Her work is primarily sculpture and installation, which
include kinetic and viewer-activated sculpture, politically- inspired
work and art with recycled and found materials. Her work has been exhibited
in California, Chicago, Baltimore, and Tokyo, and is in various private
Bay Area collections. Currently, Ozawa is working on “The Waribashi
Project: San Francisco,” an environmental art collaboration with the
Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California. The project
involves the collection of thousands of used disposable chopsticks from
local restaurants to make sculpture that promotes dialogue about cultural
practices and global environmental issues. Visit her website at donnaozawa.com
and http://www.waribashi.org.
Styrofoam is illegal in Berkeley, 2005,
kinetic installation, styrofoam, electric motors and other mixed
media.
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Project Statement
Styrofoam makes me
really anxious. It does not go away. It can’t be
recycled. It’s just reused until it falls apart. Then it ends up in landfill
and is going to be around for thousands of years. It may end up hidden in the
food chain somewhere. Maybe I’ll end up eating it and not know about it. Cancer,
toxic ash, damage to the ozone layer. It’s on our porch in bags, sometimes spilling
over and blowing around, until we get the gumption to take it to a packaging
store to get rid of it. I have to chase all the little pieces one by one. The
big chunks sit around until I get the nerve to throw it away and it looks terrible
sticking
out of the garbage can. It drives me crazy.
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What the Social Classes Owe Each Other,
2001. Found book, metal, gel medium. 7" x 4.5" x 1".
Courtesy of Carol Dawson Rose, PhD, RN.
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