Traveling Kit in Search of a Tinaja
Artist
Basia Irland
(American, born 1946)
Date2021-2022
MediumMixed media
DimensionsDimensions Variable
18 × 11 × 12 in. (45.7 × 27.9 × 30.5 cm)
18 × 11 × 12 in. (45.7 × 27.9 × 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineMuseum of New Mexico Foundation, Herzstein Family Acquisition Endowment Fund
Object number2025.5.1a-af
DescriptionConceptual sculpture comprised of a Japanese chest with drawers, a bed roll, an old canvas canteen, a metal canteen, plant and seed specimens, rocks, sticks, and photographs.2025.5.1a: wooden container with four drawers with fabric straps and seven carrizo grass chimes attached with wire and string
2025.5.1b: desert bag
2025.5.1c: metal canteen
2025.5.1d: corncob stopper for canteen
2025.5.1e: wool blanket
2025.5.1f: orange felt tie for blanket
2025.5.1g: orange felt tie for blanket
2025.5.1h: wooden linchpin
2025.5.1i: cyanotype postcard with canoe and flower images
2025.5.1j: cyanotype with oars and leaf images
2025.5.1k: cyanotype adhered to interior top compartment
2025.5.1l: twig, possibly red willow adhered inside top compartment
2025.5.1m: bundle of three seed pods bound with thread and adhered inside top compartment
2025.5.1n: plastic vile containing seed pod
2025.5.1o: small box containing three small viles with seeds inside, adhered together inside top compartment
2025.5.1p: long yellow box with cyanotype lining
2025.5.1q: seed pod shell with edge painted blue
2025.5.1r: seed pod shell with interior painted blue
2025.5.1s: rock (pumice with turquoise bound with waxed thread
2025.5.1t: flat rock/ shale with constellation painted on it
2025.5.1u: chromogenic print: 'Maude Soaking'
2025.5.1v: chromogenic print: 'A tinaja'
2025.5.1w: chromogenic print: 'Two old canteens near a tinaja'
2025.5.1x: chromogenic print: 'Artist with canteen near a tinaja'
2025.5.1y: chromogenic print: 'Artist wearing traveling kit, Ghost Ranch'
2025.5.1z: Mexican feather grass shaped like a canoe
2025.5.1aa: Mexican feather grass shaped like a canoe
2025.5.1ab: Mexican feather grass shaped like a canoe
2025.5.1ac: Mexican feather grass shaped like a canoe
2025.5.1ad: rock in the shape of a boat or canoe with lichen
2025.5.1ae: smooth rounded rock with rings of clay and a smaller rock with a turquoise inclusion adhered
2025.5.1af: orange paper liner at the bottom of drawer
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