Wallpaper (1887 Frank Sr. and Flavilla Bell House): Gussie

 
Front view: A worn and stained image of a pale blue Victorian house, fragmented and partly reconstructed on a birch sheet, laser-cut to the house’s shapes and into long strips intersecting with the architecture and an integrated frame.

Front

Back view: A sheet of birch mirroring the shape of the ruins of the Victorian house on the front view (unrecognizable here — blocky shapes with fire-eaten edges and holes), with a landscape-oriented frame and a web of structural lines.

Back

“Wallpaper (1887 Frank Sr. and Flavilla Bell House): Gussie,” by Jean Shon.
Inkjet print on birch, 17″ x 22″, 2022.

Jean Shon (@thebadrich) is a visual artist and educator working at the intersection of images, text, installation, and photography. Her practice lingers between the thresholds of legibility and illegibility, rupture and relation, and fact and fiction to sustain connection through loss.

 
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