The Yellow Wallpaper installation, Alice Hotel, Oakland, California, 1989
This installation was based on The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman originally published in 1892. I also referenced The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1935 just after her death. I began reading this autobiography when I was in the middle of my installation at the Alice Hotel, 14th and Alice Street, Oakland, California. I came across this quote in the chapter titled Oakland: "On February 6th we moved (Dora, Katharine and I) to 1258 Webster Street, taking three furnished rooms... On the eighth: 'I take Katharine to her first school, Miss Wyman, on Alice Street a lovely girl, the teacher, just a pleasant little home school, Kate likes it.'" (pg. 137)
