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Michele Asselin is an LA-based photographer who explores the stories of people of a place and time through the environments in which they work, live and play; her work examines how people and places come to reflect the systems of which they are a part. In the artist's own words of the space that she photographed for Commons, "These photographs depict the wallpaper in the banquet room of the former Hollywood Park Casino, now demolished. The floral design, which references late-nineteenth century ornamental motifs,…