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For ICFF, Helfand collaborated with Brooklyn woodworker and designer Palo Samko to create a large-scale version of her sculpture to use as storage during the fair. “On a practical level,” she says, “I needed somewhere to stash my stuff. But I've also often had this idea of trying to turn one of my 2-D images into a sculptural environment. This was the first step on that road.”