The inspiration for Wall comes from the well-known feminist text, The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Typically this story is read for its vivid depiction of patriarchal power in a 19th century domestic setting. The narrative also includes a detailed and highly visual description of a garden bower wallpaper pattern in tones of yellow, and the photomontages in the Wall series are directly influenced by these descriptions. The result is a space where figure and ground is confounded and patterns shift. The series also serves as an exploration of the color yellow. The images for this series are produced as photomontages using found 19th century portrait photographs as their source.

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