All of us will be gone, but her monuments will stay. About making a mark – what really is meaningful and filling for her? Why living and working in New Zealand doesn’t appeal so much anymore? The future is wide and open.
Catherine Griffiths reveals: when a husband is a hero, the relationship is competing. About the role of the typefaces in her public art works. How does she pick a typeface for the job?
A New Zealander, artist and designer Catherine Griffiths mixing fiction and reality. About anchovies, journeys, Paul Auster and her personal photos in her work.
Catherine Griffiths reading a small part of her favourite book. Well, actually 2 books, because they are so strongly interwoven. Double Game by Sophie Calle and Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster.
:::: (from Wikipedia: ‘Sophie Calle served as the model for the character of Maria in Paul Auster’s novel Leviathan (1992). This mingling of fact and fiction so intrigued Sophie that she took it upon herself to undertake the works of art that Auster ascribed to Maria, including a series of color-coordinated meals.’)