Planty
Planty: Trying to make her home a more pleasant experience, she experimented with matching her plants to her drapes with great success. Unfortunately, they didn’t respond well to the paint.
Platey
Platey: Showing off her precious plates, she found herself wishing for only the hope of faraway places, but it was an equally important way of outdoing the neighbors.
Smothered
Smothered: Finding the right mattress seemed an impossible task.
Booky
Booky: She tried to stop reading, but the books conquered her soul.
Cooking the Goose
Cooking the Goose: Cooking was never easy, but when the goose escaped, all hell broke loose.
Stairsy
Stairsy: Wearing her finest striped outfit proved hazardous in ascending the staircase, maybe nude would have been better.
Wallpapered
Wallpapering: “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Vines
Vines: While enjoying the conservatory, the plants attacked. She kept saying, “but, I fed you, I fed you!”
Fruity
Fruity: Perhaps we should not have gone to the farmers market, she regretted.
Anonymous Women
Growing up in suburban Chicago provides the basis of my work, and I continually address myths of perfection and illusion. I am photographically creating worlds that critique and satirize claustrophobic expectations that women continue to embrace, in spite of contemporary life and careers.
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