This piece is one of the most personal I’ve ever made. It’s called “Between Roosevelt and North Ave.” (Swipe to see all the details, this one is massive! ➡️) - I grew up in a town called Glen Ellyn. For my entire childhood, my whole world was contained between two streets: the north border (North Avenue) and the southern end (Roosevelt Road). It wasn’t just my town; it was my parents’, my grandparents’, and even my great-grandparents’ town. My family’s roots are planted so deep there, side-by-side with generations of other families. - I was always inspired by this one local folk artist’s painting of my town. It hung in the local library and showed this perfect, idealistic vision of the place. - I wanted to take that idealistic vision and inject it with the messy, complicated, “assemblage” of reality. - THE PROCESS (BTS) - So how do you map a feeling? How do you chart a family’s complicated history? I started by accumulating... everything.     •    🚂 Childhood Toys: Train tracks that r...