Un-Covering
Digital print on perforated vinyl, 32’L x 18’H
Installed across the glass façade of the Emeryville City Hall, Un-Covering transforms the building’s entryway into a luminous fabric of memory and identity. Hundreds of contemporary color photographs—portraits of the city’s present—are interwoven with archival black-and-white images from its past. Together, they form a digitally composed “quilt mural,” modeled after the traditional “Barn Raising” pattern, whose geometry evokes both structure and community.
The work serves as both a literal and metaphorical gateway. Viewed from a distance, it reads as a unified image; up close, its multitude of fragments come into focus, revealing the layered textures of a city constantly remaking itself. Like a quilt, Un-Covering celebrates the harmony found in diversity—the way disparate histories, lives, and colors coexist to form the collective identity of a place.