Canadian artist Lisa Hecht (born 1972) made this wallpaper for an installation entitled ‘The Other Side of the Mirror’ staged at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, in 2011 (part of an exhibition called Current Tendencies II: Artists from Milwaukee). The wallpaper formed a backdrop to a bed, as well as mirrors, stones and shovels. The artist has described the installation as exploring “the breakdown between public and private space by examining ideas about media control, power, cultural symbols, and the subjective interpretation of current events." The pattern consists of white silhouetted figures against an ground with an Islamic pattern in shades of blue and white. Hecht is interested in how a repeated pattern can be politicized, generating feelings of discomfort, threat and uncertainty. The V&A already holds an earlier wallpaper by Hecht, ‘Chain Link Fence’, which was made for an installation called ‘Space Contains No Threats’, 2000. (see E.1497-2001)