Wallpaper Patterns
1999-2001
Installation at Sonje Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2000
Installation at Asian American Art Center, New York, 2001

The series of wallpaper patterns was created using photographs from mass media.  Repeated over and over and reduced in size, the wallpaper patterns makes the photograph invisible turning them into visual noise, a background, a metaphor for the news cycle that’s repeated over and over making the public de-sensitized to the violence, horror, and challenges these photographs represent.   “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” installed at the entrance lobby of Sonje Museum in Seoul, South Korea, the wallpaper pattern is created with the photograph of Bob Dylan playing his song for the Pope, John Paul II.  

“Jerusalem” wallpaper patterns were created for an installation at the Asian American Art Center in New York.  A photograph depicting violence in Gaza, a Palestinian father and son was caught in between the Palestinian protestors with the Israeli police and during a broadcast live on a French TV, the father dies from a stray bullet shielding his son.  The wallpaper pattern was produced at a small newspaper printing facility in Los Angeles and in addition to the wall installation, a stack of wallpaper prints were available for viewers to take home.