Staff Picks: Tax Form Art

It’s that time of year again! (And no, we don’t mean daffodil season.) When Studio 360 asked you to make art out of the dreaded IRS form 1040 for our De-File Your Taxeschallenge, we expected to get a lot of drawings and paintings.Maybe a little origami. But we also got acrobatic videos, costumes, even jewelry —all based on our least favorite kind of paperwork. Kai Ryssdal, the host of Marketplace, will be on our show to pick a winner in advance ofTax Day. But before he gets here, here are someof our favorites. Because there should be a tax break for artists, right?

George Gilbert combines life’s two certainties into a single entry

(George Gilbert)

Margie Guyot writes: “My cat, Picasso, doesn’t seem to care about the agonies his mother goes through at tax time.”

(Margie Guyot)

Ann Martin’s “Bluebird of Happiness” pendant is made from a cut-up IRS form 1040

(Ann Martin)

This design could work well as a mural on an IRS building

(Ariel Ruth Hoebel)

Alicia Enstrom of Altitude Aerial Dance made an entire routinebased on the 1040 form

(Altitude Aerial Dance and Alicia Enstrom)

“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet” – Carrie Bradshaw

(Erin Farley)

Not the most practicalhandbag, unless you’re the IRS

(Laura Guenther-Garcia)

I think someone needs her form changed

(Christina Muens)

Les Barker made this incredible paper snowflake out of the tax form

(Les Barker)

Ah, the ineffable ennui of taxes

(Elsa Mora)