There is No Home

This work examines domestic space as a place of the seemingly dichotomous spheres of comfort and danger. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, I struggled with anxiety while being away from my home. This feeling of agoraphobia was allowed to take on a life of its own with the sudden required isolation of the pandemic. In these photographs, I present identity loss through domestic isolation. I merge with the home. Taking great influence from haunted house narrative and the aesthetics of spectral photography, I recreate scenes of hauntings at home. With references to the history of female hysteria through the use of historical artifacts of domestic danger (e.g. arsenic wallpaper) I find danger within the comfort and comfort within the danger.