The United States Postal Service announced that it will create a set of stamps dedicated to the work of the American artist Ruth Asawa, who died in 2013. The page of 20 stamps will feature 10 unique designs showing various examples of Asawa’s famed wire sculptures, ranging from throughout her career. The images range from details of the work to full views of select sculptures to installation views that give a dizzying effect to the pieces. Among the works highlighted are Untitled (S.039, Hanging Five Spiraling Columns of Open Windows), 1959, which has the effect of elongated, twisting and interlocking, leaves of plant, which features nine connected orbs in various colors. The postal service did not immediately provide a date for when the stamps will be available to purchase.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.