Jackie Munro is 21 and considering switching mediums.MOSSLESS: For your thesis work you “visited hotel rooms after people checked out and before they were cleaned.” How many rooms have you been through?JACKIE MUNRO: It’s impossible to say. Sometimes I would walk into a hotel and fall in love with the first room and spend all of my time there. Other times, I would wander from room to room for most of my visit. Over a hundred, I would guess.ML: What’s the worst state you’ve seen a room in?JM: I didn’t see that many bad rooms. The project quickly became about the specifics of the average room that make them truly interesting. I’ve seen a lot of rooms that looked like no one even stayed there. The best photographs are of the details that only seem strange in retrospect—stacks of pillows, misplaced towels, and personal items left behind. I did see the leftovers of a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at a hotel in Boston, though. Those people left a lot of clothing.ML: What’s Experience, Objectified about?JM: That project is a series of created and found image postcards. We were trying to question how we represent the experiences we have through correspondence, specifically contemporary experiences with nature. The old postcards include a lynching, a safari, a postcard for the New Jersey Turnpike, and a Hitler youth postcard. The composite postcards place people in the Museum of Natural History dioramas. The series is about the disconnect between what we see, what we truly experience, and how we tell other people “I have, in fact, been here.” I did that project in collaboration with Linzi Silverman.ML: What’s being an art director on a movie set like?JM: Being an art director is really fun. Art direction is about collecting all of the stuff that fills the screen aside from the actors, and thinking like you are someone you will never get to meet.

Jackie Munro is 21 and considering switching mediums.

MOSSLESS: For your thesis work you “visited hotel rooms after people checked out and before they were cleaned.” How many rooms have you been through?
JACKIE MUNRO: It’s impossible to say. Sometimes I would walk into a hotel and fall in love with the first room and spend all of my time there. Other times, I would wander from room to room for most of my visit. Over a hundred, I would guess.

ML: What’s the worst state you’ve seen a room in?
JM: I didn’t see that many bad rooms. The project quickly became about the specifics of the average room that make them truly interesting. I’ve seen a lot of rooms that looked like no one even stayed there. The best photographs are of the details that only seem strange in retrospect—stacks of pillows, misplaced towels, and personal items left behind. I did see the leftovers of a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at a hotel in Boston, though. Those people left a lot of clothing.

ML: What’s Experience, Objectified about?
JM: That project is a series of created and found image postcards. We were trying to question how we represent the experiences we have through correspondence, specifically contemporary experiences with nature. The old postcards include a lynching, a safari, a postcard for the New Jersey Turnpike, and a Hitler youth postcard. The composite postcards place people in the Museum of Natural History dioramas. The series is about the disconnect between what we see, what we truly experience, and how we tell other people “I have, in fact, been here.” I did that project in collaboration with Linzi Silverman.

ML: What’s being an art director on a movie set like?
JM: Being an art director is really fun. Art direction is about collecting all of the stuff that fills the screen aside from the actors, and thinking like you are someone you will never get to meet.





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