Size: 12" x 9"

Closure: Button & string

Envelope type: Portfolio

10 envelopes per pack

Carrie Mae Weems is best known as a photographer, but she has also made

other works. One example is the decorated screen for the installation. The

Apple of Adam’s Eye at the Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum in 1993.

The design on this portfolio is replicated from the wallpaper that was part of the

installation. Rather unusually, Weems appropriate a design by the British artist

John Farleigh that was made for the endpapers to a book by George Bernard Shaw.

The book, The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, was published in 1932.

Roll of wallpaper, repeat- patterned in black and white with a stylized image of the 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.