A cassette was one of the first things Joy Justine drew to paint. She then wanted to learn how to reproduce the same image over and over again. The first time she transferred her sketch to paint it was onto a cardboard box. (She later learned to cut the box apart and use pieces of it for tests but it’s a curve for a new artist). One of the reasons the cassette tape was one of Joy Justine’s first projects is because music has always been very important to her. As she was growing up and listening and recording music on cassette tapes to play on her Walkman. She says, “When I felt most alone, I always felt better with music, especially tapes I could record.” - Joy Justine. She had to use a cardboard box because she had recently visited the Andy Warhol Museum where she discovered that she wanted to try and paint, his work inspired her so much and she had no canvas yet so she used what she had. Once she got canvas and mastered how to transfer the image she began making backgrounds. She then thought “Let me see if my friend’s will make them with me.” So friends that came by the studio would paint a background and then she would transfer the cassette image and it would be painted. There is a total of seven single cassette tape paintings and one painting with four cassettes on an 18 x 24 inch canvas. You can purchase a set of four which is how the artist imagined them to be displayed or one that you might like for your own music studio, man-cave, or garage. Great gift for DJ’s and lover’s of music.
“When I felt most alone, I always felt better with music, especially tapes I could record.”