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Kay Healy
Philadelphia artist Kay Healy has been creating large-scale screen prints of furniture since 2008. Her imagery is culled from her own childhood memories and from other peoples' descriptions of their childhood homes. Recently, she has been screen printing on fabric and creating full-scale re-creations of rooms that are given life and depth through a traditional craft process called trapunto, or low-relief stuffing. She pays specific attention to unique patterns and colors of furniture and other household objects, and the potential for these details to embody vivid memories of people, events and time periods in peoples' lives. While working with other people's memories, she aims to create a physical representation of collective recollections and investigate how a variety of people of different genders, ages, races and incomes relate to the objects that populate the homes of our memories.
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Philadelphia artist Kay Healy has been creating large-scale screen prints of furniture since 2008. Her imagery is culled from her own childhood memories and from other peoples' descriptions of their childhood homes. Recently, she has been screen printing on fabric and creating full-scale re-creations of rooms that are given life and depth through a traditional craft process called trapunto, or low-relief stuffing. She pays specific attention to unique patterns and colors of furniture and other household objects, and the potential for these details to embody vivid memories of people, events and time periods in peoples' lives. While working with other people's memories, she aims to create a physical representation of collective recollections and investigate how a variety of people of different genders, ages, races and incomes relate to the objects that populate the homes of our memories.
