by David Izu
Eight band aids yellowed crackle spread like a spiderweb tattooed over the face around the eyes of a doll of 77 years a concentration camp survivor along with its owner a girl then 5 now 82 This could be a pretext for cross cultural aesthetics the nobility of endurance wabi and sabi embedded in the passage of plastic through time a model of a minority triumphant or not The doll’s eyes bigger than her mouth she’s seen so much said so little
About the contributor: David Izu is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist. His mother was incarcerated at Poston, AZ; his father escaped imprisonment in a family caravan to Utah, where he was drafted to serve in the U.S. Army in Europe. Dave has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, the SF Art Institute and the California College of the Arts. His work is in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as other institutions.
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