Portrait of a Young Woman Ruth Fine as an act of interpretation

as an act of interpretation and definition of reality

while so much is spinning and whirling around us in memory

as my recent landscapes evidence

my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry

I was not alone

Portrait of a Young Woman Ruth Fine as an act of interpretationPortrait Young Woman, 1998 Offset Lithograph Edition of 100 22 x 30 in Collaborating Printer: Bob Franklin At the center of this print is a young woman photographed in another era, her gaze steady and composed, her presence weighted with a history that was never fully recorded. Tomie Arai built this work from archival photographs, family stories, and oral histories, part of a larger series dedicated to recovering the human experience within the