Willow City Stock Surface Pattern Design Portfolio, by Krista Real

a surface pattern design portfolio

Krista Real

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About Born in the Texas Hill Country, Krista Troy Real has watched her ancestral community morph from a place full of German ranching families to a western millionaire’s playground.

Willow City Stock refers to this group of German ranchers, the work they did on the land they inhabited, and her family roots on the ranch her grandfather worked.

Using illustrations of handmade dolls, personal symbols, and motifs from this ranch, her work is about the complex relationships of landscape, siblings, conservation and heritage.

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Table of Contents Ranch House………………………………………………3 Saints and Dreamers………………………13 Sunshine at Granny’s……………………21 Sister Ranch…………………………………………30

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