Kali Tal’s fine art and photography weblog
Posted in New Artwork on Jan 28th, 2010
The January doll is part of a 12-month journaling project, in which I decided to mesh my interest in beading and jewelry-making with my work as an assemblage artist. At the end of the year, all the dolls will be exhibited together as an installation. More info on the doll and the project are available [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Apr 18th, 2008
Another image roughly based on a public domain photo from the 1930s, in the Farm Services Administration collection. The images of economic privation and of a modern society that can no longer support its citizens seem very pertinent to me in light of the collapsing economic system of the United States.
Posted in New Artwork on Apr 17th, 2008
I’d never lived in a big city before moving to Berlin, and one of the things that really awed me was the gargantuan size of the public buildings here. They’re built on a scale that is meant to make people feel small and inconsequential beside them. I’d only experienced this sense of radically diminished importance [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Mar 29th, 2008
Today I found a piece of anti-Muslim hate mail in my inbox. It was based on lies, distortions of historical fact, and theological misinterpretations, and it was written by a man who calls himself a Christian, and who claims with a “logical” argument, to prove that Islam is a destructive and violent religion. But arguments [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Mar 29th, 2008
Last week I took a trip to visit Köln (Cologne, for the Americans reading). As cities go, it’s pretty grey and unattractive and filled with extremely expensive American and European chain stores — it’s a money town, full of bankers and insurance people. Aesthetically, it’s primarily remarkable for its museums and its churches, over ten [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Mar 5th, 2008
The images on the three tablets are scanned from photographs, digitally manipulated, printed, hand painted with acrylic and rescanned before a final printing on canvas. They are mounted on 30×80 cm wooden boards and coated with acrylic medium. For over twenty years I’ve been wrestling with questions about where individual memories of trauma, history, and [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Nov 27th, 2007
The latest in the Skull series…
Posted in New Artwork on Nov 26th, 2007
I’ve begun working on a new series based on 3-D assemblages I completed some years ago. The original work was done directly on cow skulls; almost all are now in private collections. The skull artworks were inspired by the landscapes of my dreams and meditations and are strongly connected to my sense of the sacred, [...]
Posted in New Artwork on Nov 23rd, 2007
Have you ever been so far into someone else’s head that you couldn’t tell where their dreams ended and yours began?
Posted in How I do things..., New Artwork on May 3rd, 2007
Some nights I’m unable to sleep because I get caught up imagining what it must be like to live in a city under siege. In any given war, most inhabitants are not part of any kind of armed struggle, and only want to live in peace. When I do fall asleep, in my nightmares Bagdad [...]
