Interface
One wall of the gallery space will be painted in mud, creating a wallpaper design. The design will reflect a Victorian style/motif, appropriate to the influx or height of colonization. The design will continue partially onto the floor. The second installation is composed of rolls of silkscreened paper, printed with a wallpaper pattern hanging from the ceiling and rolling out onto the floor. The rolls of paper form a small room, closed in on itself, hiding/sheltering a pair of moccasins. The moccasins are made of a flimsy/transparent fabric and are filled with earth. The final installation is an apparent mound on the floor. Wound around itself, it is a long beaded length of interfacing made to form a shelter.
"During the Victorian era when colonialism and the Industrial Revolution were at their heights, Western society's interest in decoration grew as it became more accessible to the middle-class. Other cultures, while inspiring much of the designs, were ultimately ravaged because of colonial assimilationist policies and industrial practices. These works use decoration as the common ground in order to investigate beyond the surface. New relationships are created between various elements in order to expand the terms by which they are understood. While new definitions are not always easy to find, this work is meant to explore the results of such cultural collision."

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