Unique work · 2011–2014
The Ten Thousand Things II
One hundred small paper collages gather earlier forms, materials, and memories into a single four-part installation.
Date2011–2014
FormatOne unique work comprising 100 collages in four framed groups
MediumCut-and-pasted paper on paper, mounted on Somerset white paper
Individual sheet9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
Overall installation52 5/8 × 170 1/2 in. (133.6 × 433.1 cm), SFMOMA
CollectionSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art · 2019.177.A–D
One hundred small collages are arranged across four frames, each holding twenty-five sheets. Their measured grid gives a shared structure to an extraordinary variety of marks, materials, and remembered forms.
Each frame contains 25 mounted sheets. Together they form one unique work—not a print portfolio, an edition, or 100 separately catalogued objects. The four views below preserve the complete frames and their left-to-right installation order.
Women’s Studio Workshop described the work in 2014 as an ongoing project that recreated Zarina’s earlier work in miniature. Seen together, the small collages become an index of a life in materials: paper, ink, gold, geometry, houses, borders, routes, and repeated marks.
Installation structure
Four framed groups
Shown from left to right as installed. The equal groups allow repeated marks and intervals to gather into one expansive field.