Based on a True Story (for Wassaic) is a print that emerged from Tara Cooper's installation on the 7th floor in the Wassaic Project's 2014 exhibition Seeing the Sky.

Tara Cooper’s art practice draws from meteorology and creative non-fiction, resulting in projects housed under the moniker Weather Girl. The creative outcomes conflate the language of meteorology (forecasting, predictions, and atmospheric conditions) with the personal impact and experience of weather—visual poetics with scientific fact. She has an everything-but-the-kitchen sink approach to materials and media, and often joins forces with her all-in-one collaborator and husband Terry O’Neill. Their work combines print, found objects, sculpture and text along with documentary filmmaking.