A new perspective can make everything seem rosy and interconnected. As a tourist, daily habits shift: simple actions such as how one uses their phone, thier social media, what pictures are taken, what is consumed changes. These actions become heightened, special, even when the tourist themselves remains, in some ways, the same person they were at home.

In Red Traveler, Allyce Wood combines digital prints, transforming generic tourist images into all-red adaptations. This grid is literally interlaced with a white rope, draping between the photographs through grommeted holes. A long tapestry, woven with shifting red wefts over a soft white warp, hangs over the cord like laundry caught on a line.

The tapestry, handwoven using a digital jacquard process, drapes in an attempt to describe the duality between image trend and image histories. The repeated skulls on its surface are stylized, rendered in familiar depictions seen on punk patches, Italian frescoes, Halloween decorations, and true anatomy. The artist plays with her source imagery, bounding between time frames and biological accuracy to speak to our perspectives. Where we are in life, in our travels, shifting the way we see ourselves even in conventional terms.

artists: Lauren Davis, Gabrielle Paré, Hanna Roloff, and Allyce Wood

Red Traveler was shown as part of group exhibition tour tourist, neutral new at Oslo Ø in 2017.