Collection Description: Box (a proposition for ten years) is a capsule of a ten-year work-in-progress and exchange between Patricia Fernández Carcedo and the recipient of the box's contents, Young Chung located in Los Angeles. The items include a variety of letters, found and created objects, and paintings. 

Biographical Note
Patricia Fernández Carcedo was born in 1980 Burgos, Spain. 

Scope and Content
Box (a proposition for ten years) is organized into two sections:

Objects: twelve drawings and nine paintings made with oil or watercolor paints. Three ceramic cups with an accompanying pitcher. Fifty obsidian rocks used as protective and healing stones. One wood bed frame with a carved lid. Five textiles, three of which have an embroidery detail. One 35mm color slide film. Twenty sculptures including objects made with bone, metal or wood, inspired by the artist’s grandfather’s art practice. 
Documents: eighteen correspondence items including fourteen letters, several postcards with writing sent by the artist from various locations in Spain, France, and the United States addressed to Young Chung. One spliced postcard framed in glass. One newspaper, Correo de Burgos, published in April 2016. A contract agreement for the project.

Timeline 
Note: José Luis Carcedo was born 1923 in Briviesca, Spain. In 1937, at age fourteen, he began carving at a wood shop. He started reproducing the estrella [star] symbol into wood. Included in the collection is a wooden box Carcedo gifted his granddaughter, Patricia Fernández Carcedo. 

Before Box (a proposition for ten years):
2010 Fernández emulates her grandfather’s carving of the “x” symbol 

2012 The contract [061] for Box (a proposition for ten years) is drafted between Fernández and Chung
2013 The first wooden carved sculpture is created for the box [022]
2014 Small paintings [002, 009, 020] are added to the box
2015 A plan [032] is developed for the remaining years of the box
2016 Carved wood structures [021, 064] and letters [051, 053] are added to the box
2017 Ceramic works are added during drinking cup exchange [015, 017, 018] and indexical drawing of the box contents is created [025]
2018 The bed [046] is created, obsidian rocks [048] and the Bone Ship [014] are added to the box
2019 The lid for the bed is carved and a drawing [003] is produced between Fernández and her grandfather during a trip to the eye doctor
2020 The archive for the box is developed by LACA
2021 Forthcoming
2022 Final celebration of Box (a proposition for ten years)

Photography Evan Walsh.

Box (a proposition for ten years)

Titlesort ascending Artist(s)/Author(s) Date Acquired Reference #
[Mahogany carved shelf/top] Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31867.FE
Yellow marked path (rock) Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31865.FE
Wood book Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31852.FE
Watercolor card for Young Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31899.FE
Visualization for Dilation Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33841.FE
Untitled (Sleep) Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31846.FE
Tied String Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31889.FE
supports for bed Patricia Fernández 6/16/2023
OF.35085.FE
Stage set for sad endings no. 1 Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31879.FE
Spring Equinox Cups Patricia Fernández 11/1/2023
OF.35669.FE
Soil Half Egg Patricia Fernández 12/18/2023
OF.35853.FE
Smooth Rose Quartz Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31876.FE
Small White Roc Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31875.FE
slide Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31883.FE
Sketches for Banner for LACA Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33845.FE
Sketch for Young's Bed Patricia Fernández 10/24/2023
OF.35635.FE
Santa Casilda Postcard Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31888.FE
sand color doily Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31886.FE
Ruedo Ibérico Pitcher Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31861.FE
Ruedo Ibérico Cup Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31863.FE
Ruedo Iberico Cup Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31864.FE
Rousseau Postcard Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31894.FE
Rock with red paint Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31877.FE
Riso Todd Madigan Gallery Patricia Fernández 2/15/2021
OF.32234.FE
RI stationary Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31885.FE
Red Flowers, drawing Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31913.FE
Postcard to Young from the Forest (Asturias) Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33840.FE
Postcard from Madrid Patricia Fernández 6/15/2023
OF.35076.FE
Postcard from Joshua Tree Patricia Fernández 6/15/2023
OF.35074.FE
Perseids Watercolor Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31890.FE
Perseids porcelain bowl Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31862.FE
Pere Lachaise watercolor Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31872.FE
Parchment Painting Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31912.FE
Painting on Grey Cardstock Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31901.FE
Notes for Memory is Progress II Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33843.FE
Notes for Memory is Progress II Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33844.FE
No Pasaran Postcard Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31884.FE
Newspaper from Burgos Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31874.FE
Napkin Patricia Fernández 11/18/2020
OF.31882.FE
Mountain Postcard Patricia Fernández 10/24/2023
OF.35636.FE
Mahogany drawer with bone handle Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31911.FE
Letter YC/PF; Thread on Copy Paper Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31906.FE
Letter with Cochineal Tests Patricia Fernández 10/24/2023
OF.35637.FE
Letter to Young from the desert Patricia Fernández 9/6/2022
OF.33842.FE
Letter to Young from Galicia-Paris Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31898.FE
Letter to Young 2022 Patricia Fernández 6/15/2023
OF.35080.FE
Letter to Young 2015 Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31897.FE
Letter to Young (Copy Paper) Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31904.FE
Letter to Young (Year's Travel Notes) Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31905.FE
Letter from Spain Patricia Fernández 11/19/2020
OF.31909.FE

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