R.B.G.
R.B.G.
How do you fit many of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quotes in one piece? I had a few ideas, but this one was my friend’s and my favorite. A desire to honor her legacy gave light to a passion-collaborative project.
Here is all the meaning we packed in this piece
The royal blue is for her regal strength and impact, and for the symbolic nature of blue that represents truth and peace.
The imperfect and incomplete black box suggests the robe she wore in her role in the Supreme Court and represents the imperfect system that she fought so hard to fix.
The collar goes out of the box because that is how she brought change, in an unconventional, real, and dignified way. Thinking outside the box.
There are exactly 12 quotes carefully chosen, that weave and make the collar.
The words read in a zig-zag and change style when the next one starts.
They are a selected collection of words of wisdom to live by.
** the blue on the giclee print is a deep royal blue, Pantone matched, the blue in the pictures is a little lighter and may look different on your screen.
If you want to see the process of this piece, please click here
The framed option includes:
a two-inch white mat border
a flat black metal frame
clear glass
You just have to hang them up! The 8x10 inch option will be approximately 13x15 inches and the 11x14 inch option will be approximately 16x19 inches.
The quotes in order of appearance:
1. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
2. So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
3. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
4. If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
5. Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
6. Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
7. I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
8. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
9. Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
10. You can’t have it all, all at once.
11. If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
12. You can disagree without being disagreeable.