International
Design is a series
of pencil drawings that appropriate the layout and text of articles about home
design. In each drawing, I replace the article’s original photograph with
an image of housing in the developing world. By juxtaposing luxury with conditions
stemming from rapid urbanization in the global south, I connect the fantasies
of first-world affluence with the production of third-world poverty. This relationship
reveals how newspapers and magazines promote the extremes of wealth and poverty
as natural and unproblematic.
