Hamilton-based artist Andrew McPhail utilizes his artistic practice to express reflections on his personal experiences through considered application of multi-media materials. His 2022 Smokestack Quarterly edition, all my little failures; the wallpaper, expands upon a life-sized wearable garment work (2010) made up of approximately 70,000 Bandaids, presented for viewing in a gallery setting and activated as a worn garment for related street performances. Like the original piece, this print was created by direct incorporation of Bandaids as they were layered, inked, and imprinted directly onto paper through the press. Though each unique print in the edition is intended for individual distribution, the repeated pattern carried through the edition cumulatively creates one single, contiguous image. As Andrew further describes:
This print is a repeat pattern, so each print lines up on the edges with all the others. There’s something magical to me about the repeat pattern and the idea of an endless mass, both in the form and the content of the work. This iteration reaches towards recreating the experience of the original piece as interior design.
