True Stories, 2018

Wallpaper Installation, Site-Specific

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Originally commissioned by Revival Hotel, in Baltimore, for an open stairwell in their public space.

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"True Stories" was inspired by Baltimore Album Quilts which are specific to the city of Baltimore and date back to the 1840s. These quilts were built on a lexicon of symbols that have a long rich history and tell stories about the lives of the women who made them.

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Borrowing from traditional motifs, I took the same style of visual storytelling and turned it into a large-scale, collaged wallpaper piece, made up of hundreds of remixed photographs, creating a patchwork of poetic compositions to portray a narrative. However, I used present-day imagery to make the pattern. Each part of my design tells a story about my life as an artist, traveler and mother.

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