Amy Chan

This piece takes inspiration from French designer Jean Julien Deltil’s 19th-century wallpaper Views of North America and its idealized depictions of the Western American landscape. Amy Chan counters the “wild-beauty” seen in Deltil’s design, instead commenting on how “homogenized and tame [the land] has become.” Chan’s reimagined landscape considers the monotony of the modern world, using dull colors from contemporary wallpaper to depict prehistoric natural landmarks such as Niagara Falls and the Natural Bridge. She compares the glacial boulders found throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic to lawn ornaments “too large to move in the clearing of land.”

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