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The repeated image in this work is a photo collage made from scans of the backside of an embroidered seat chair cover that has been in my family for nearly 100 years. This cover is one of a set that was a wedding gift for my great-grandmother, handmade by her four sisters before she immigrated to the US from Lebanon. The handmade paper, a blend of cotton and flax, was dyed with pomegranate extract and textured to suggest the surface of a plaster or stucco wall.

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Celia Shaheen

Risograph on hand-dyed and handmade paper.

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