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#1 from Hamtramck alley series (digital photograph - ongoing series)

Toby Millman is a printmaker, photographer, sound collector, and occasionally a cartoonist and filmmaker. She currently lives in Hamtramck, the island surrounded by the murky city of Detroit, but she is semi-originally from Miami and arrived in the American Midwest via Western Massachusetts, Brooklyn and Vermont with a couple back-and-forths to Palestine in between. She filled up her passport three years ago and currently feels like her new documents are a bit naked so she’s hoping that the planets will align soon so she will miraculously and all at once have the funds, the time, and the willingness to leave the comfort of good water pressure and the ability to communicate in the language she speaks best before subjecting herself to a military and civilian occupation in order to get the coveted and yet hated rubber stamp. In the meantime, she tries to pretend she’s still in Palestine by making art about the time she spent and didn’t spend there and by naming her password-protected wireless signal, “Ramallah.” She also makes work about regular things, not bunny rabbits or puppy dogs, but you get the idea.

Toby Millman is a printmaker, photographer, sound collector, and occasionally a cartoonist and filmmaker. She currently lives ...