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LA Artcore presents an exhibit of three artists with different approaches to what it means to be an artist, and what the art they make is for.

Mike Saijo found a way to make art that interfaces with his intellectual interests and an expression on the role of an artist in our society. Drawing from an intense interest in linguistics, theory, and literature, pages that nourished his mind become the actual surface onto which he applies his images; as an example, arranged selections from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet become a substrate for the image of a tree. The images are applied using …