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One example is the decorated screen for the installation <i>The Apple of Adam's Eye</i> at the Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum in 1993. This wallpaper was part of the same installation. Rather unusually, Weems appropriated a design by the British artist John Farleigh that was made for the endpapers to a book by George Bernard Shaw. The book, <i>The Adventures of The Black Girl in her Search for God</i>, was published in 1932. Weems chose the design as a backdrop to a display of her own photographs. These were in fact taken on a 'pilgrimage' that she made to the Coast of Ghana, Elmina, the Cape Coast and the Ile de Gorée in 1991. As she put it in an interview with curator Thomas Collins, 'I was a subject in search of myself and attempting to map a new psychological terrain for myself and others. I suppose . . . I'm trying to construct a new prism for looking at certain aspects of African-American culture. The wallpaper is a metaphor for the searching, probing, looking'.","physicalDescription":"roll of wallpaper, repeat- patterned in black and white with stylised image of back of a girl (waist length), leaning forward, flanked by a large fern and a bundle of leafy stems. The pattern in fact is a reproduction of the endpaper designed by John Farleigh for the 1932 publication ' The Adventures of The Black Girl in her Search for God', by George Bernard Shaw.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Weems, Carrie Mae","id":"A5277"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Scancelli","id":"A11345"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"AAT25732"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Philadelphia Fabric Workshop","id":"A6844"},"association":{"text":"commissioned by","id":"x28662"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"screen printing","id":"AAT53281"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Screenprint on paper","categories":[{"text":"Wall coverings","id":"THES48878"},{"text":"Black History","id":"THES48989"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AL4993","2012FL6210"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"514A","id":"THES49773"},"free":"","case":"SH","shelf":"45","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"wallpaper","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Philadelphia","id":"x29538"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1993","earliest":"1993-01-01","latest":"1993-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by the artist","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"994.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"67.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'Looking High and Low'. Roll of wallpaper 'African Series' by Carrie Mae Weens, 1995. Screenprint.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Carrie Mae Weems, Mary Jane Jacob, bell hooks: \"Carrie Mae Weems:The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia\"  The Fabric Workshop/Museum Philadelphia, 1993\r\n\r\nThomas Collins and Carrie Mae Weems: leaflet to accompany the display  'Projects'  Museum of Modern Art, New York. November 1995- January 1996."}],"production":"The paper was created as a backdrop for display of three series of photographs of Ghana, Elmina, the Cape Coast and the Isle de Gorée, Senegal, taken by the artist in 1991. 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