Home Studio

Home Studio is a series of photo installations influenced by my own upbringing. Through conversations with the maternal figures in my life and memory, I focuses on issues of identity and womanhood through my work.

When I look back at my childhood and how I was raised I am confronted with ideas and notions on how a woman is supposed to act and “perform” for society. Through my pictorial and arts-related explorations of womanhood, I strive to push back against the traditional norms that have dominated my upbringing, in the process highlighting the challenges of my own internalizations of a women’s role and my attempts to disrupt and unlearn what I have inherited.

 Beginning with personal narratives and conversations with the maternal figures in my life, I set out to construct my own perception of space, and inheritance, based on memory. I also incorporate human-scaled objects and props, the stuff of childhood and growing up, to ornament this investigation of perception. It is my intention to have the viewer question my intentionality and awareness, to wonder about where I am situated in the narrative of the work.

 The nature of control continues to be a recurring theme in my work. Whether it is in searching for the “ideal” model or exact replica of a leather chair or (insert second example here), I use the camera as a tool to eludicate my own emotions and my relationship to myself and those closest to me. My current studio practice is a back-and-forth between pathos and this notion of control – a constant search for who I am as a woman and how I want to present myself to society. In this way I hope to leave an inquiry of the matriarchal and the matrilineal for the generations to come.