The Travelers was on view in the newly built Prior Performing Arts Center designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA from September 2022 through July 2023. In 2025, The Travelers was selected by Yasmil Raymond for the Meridians Sector at Art Basel Miami Beach. It is currently on loan to Art-in-Buildings in Detroit.

By conjuring a distant world with paired moons, Hill draws from her interest in science fiction and fantasy novels (including Ursula le Guin, Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin), as well as the production of Philip Glass’s 1983 opera Akhnaten, about the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian Pharaoh. In Hill’s words: “These stories of power and hardship, in unknown or extinct worlds, often show the dangerous possibilities in the creation of symbols, myths and common beliefs, but also the necessity for order and beauty to produce comfort and safety.”

The Travelers draws many references from the 1970 and 80s. Hill holds a love for the lesser-known Pattern and Decoration movement. Hill was initially drawn to the movement through the work of Cynthia Carlson who painted rooms of wallpaper in the 70s and 80s. Her interest in collage and material-based artwork include Al Loving’s sewn paintings and Alan Shields strings of beads and fabric scraps. When initially conceptualizing the project, Hill learned a tremendous amount from Mary Beth Edelson’s Great Goddess Cut-Outs, part of her “Rising Women” series and first exhibited in 1975. For Hill, The Great Goddess Cut-Outs help explain the potential of an art object to simultaneously be a symbol, a place and a living-being.