Sacred rocks stand in a combed sand pattern. In the background, a grid pattern resembles a Japanese temple screen. This artist places objects and colour patches in the same meditative fashion as the Zen gardeners of sand and rocks do.
When looking at this collage, note how your eye goes from the red in the bottom left to the red and blue in the upper right, inviting you to pay attention to the whole surface of the image.
Details
The collage is mounted on card, likely mat board, 6 x 5.5 inches. It is then glued onto another mat board 9.5 inches x 7.25. It came to CAPF with an acid containing mat which was 11x14, which Granirer had chosen as its eventual framed dimensions. CAPF has removed the mat.
Signed: "P. Granirer", in ink, lower right corner front.
Inscribed: "Zen Garden VI" in graphite on lower left front of mat.
"Zen Garden VI" in graphite, in the upper right verso; beneath that, a price scratched out, in pen; and beneath that, "$400 - 160.", in pen; "17" (an inventory number) circled in pen, on upper right verso;
"11 x 14", (which represents the mat size, which is underlined twice), in pencil, in the middle verso.
Image Dimensions (inches/centimetres)
Dimensions accurate or approximate?
No
Image Height (inches)
6.5
Image Width (inches)
5
Image Depth (inches)
0.1
Image Height (centimetres)
16.5
Image Width (centimetres)
10.28
Image Depth (centimetres)
0.1
Substrate Dimensions (inches/centimetres)
Substrate Height (inches)
9.5
Substrate Width (inches)
7.25
Substrate Depth (inches)
0.2
Substrate Height (centimetres)
24
Substrate Width (centimetres)
18.5
Substrate Depth (centimetres)
0.1
Framed?
No
Acquisition Type
Gift
Literature
P. Granirer, "Light within the Shadows: A Painter's Memoir" Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2017
ISBN 978-1-926991-84-9
(softcover)
