Artwork copyright Seta Injeyan. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Mare Nostrum, 1982

Seta Injeyan
Armenian (born 1946)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Mare Nostrum is a mixed media painting by artist Seta Injeyan. The title refers to the Latin name for the Mediterranean Sea, located between Europe and Northern Africa. She layered paint and colored pencil onto a film transparency, which she mounted onto paper. She notes, “The transparency medium allows me to present intuitive images and their conversion to yet other images. I create a new kind of reality based on an already existing one – a developed image on film.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Los Angeles-based artist Seta Injeyan was born in Aleppo, Syria of Armenian heritage and became a U.S. citizen in 1977. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.