The Los Angeles Public Library on Friday released a new card design: a mythological Japanese child of superhuman strength whose fiery red body is attired in Dodger blue.
. His card artwork centers on Kintaro, the folklore character also known as Golden Boy, usually depicted wearing a bib with the kanji character for gold. “I gave him a twist,” Fujita said.The new Los Angeles Public Library card features a detail of the Gajin Fujita painting"Guardian Angel."
The new library card will be available at all 73 LAPL locations “while supplies last,” officials said, declining to state a specific number. The Kintaro design is the library’s second limited-edition card; the first was byFujita said the imagery comes from a painting titled “Guardian Angel” that he created a few years ago but that had languished unsold. It eventually went on view at the, run by the Department of Cultural Affairs, where library marketing chief Peter Persic saw it, Fujita said.
Library cards typically feature horizontal imagery, so in order to get a good, close-up look at Kintaro’s eye-blacked face, the new design will be the rare card with vertical imagery. For Fujita, 47, an Otis College of Art and Design graduate who grew up in Boyle Heights and recalled going to the local public library as a boy to look at art books, the card represents something of a full circle.
“Those were the first moments in my life where I could feel myself in another world,” he said in an interview. “That was the beginning of a stirring of my imagination.”
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