A Green Dress

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Do objects remember? Or are they wrapped in the memories we bring to them, like layers of stories folded around a picture, a voice, or a worn-out shoe? In this exhibit, created to complement ひろしま hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako, opening in The Audain Gallery on October 13, visitors are invited to experience selected objects and media from MOA’s worldwide collection. Some are ancient, some are new. Some are inscribed with their histories, while others are uprooted – their origins, makers, and journeys erased or forgotten. Some, like the green dress of the title, speak to memories and relationships not contained by the Museum but still part of living communities. Please join us for this intimate, yet revealing, look at the collections, curated by Karen Duffek, Krisztina Laszlo, Carol Mayer, and Susan Rowley. - MOA

I worked with MOA designer Skooker Broome to develop the graphic design for A Green Dress, showing at the Museum of Anthropology from September 27th 2011 to April 8th, 2012. The approach chosen was meant to use mirror imagery and type modification as a way of communicating the ephemeral and complicated nature of memory. Buddha boards were placed throughout the space to encourage interactivity.

Photographs by Vitor Munhoz