Roses and a bird

This is a wallpaper sample manufactured in the first half of the twentieth century. The sample features a central pattern of roses and leaves, with a bird sitting on a branch. Listen to the audio created as part of the Sonic Wallpaper Project commissioned by MoDA and realised by Dr Felicity Ford: https://soundcloud.com/modamuseum/04-badda-4855 To create this piece, willing interviewees were asked to respond to wallpaper in the MoDA collection and asked to share their responses. Felicity then went on to create field-recordings based on what people said about the wallpaper design. She then layered these recordings with the interview material relating to this design, expanding the fantasies of home decorating using the descriptive powers of sound! People responded to this wallpaper (accession no. BADDA 4855) with fantasies involving the drinking of tea, big sofas, fine china, birds and birdsong, nature, abstraction, the nature of repetition, and a fantasy garden with roses going all the way up the wall.