Broken Plaid and other works by Mika Tajima Presented by  RISD Museum Appearing at  RISD Museum In celebration of the opening of the Museum’s first gallery devoted to new media works, Broken Plaid by Mika Tajima (American, b.1975) will be presented. Complementing the installation, other video work by Tajima will be shown on a monitor in the gallery. Artist’s Statement: Mika Tajima on “Broken Plaid” In this installation, I took the Minimalist grid form and morphed it into a pop, video wall paper. The video begins as a very still plaid pattern made of red, yellow and green lines. Slowly, as if one was hallucinating, the lines begin moving and the pattern begins to lose shape and the video system, the foam sculpture/seating area continues the broken shapes of the video onto the floor area. I wanted to create a space that was part sculpture, part lounge, part viewing area, part installation. Each aspect of the installation falls somewhere in between being purely functional or purely aesthetic. read more >