WHERE DRAPES MEET CARPET is a series of self-portraits which navigate questions of

gender stereotypes within a constructed allusion of domestic space. Utilizing both the self-portrait and the still life, this body of work engages in conversations of representation and agency, as well as in an art historical absence of the two.

WHERE DRAPES MEET CARPET is an anxiety of the feminine ideal and the complicated relationship between female bodies and domestic space. The domestic presents as a perfectly manicured, abstracted, or hyper-idealistic representation of home space, consumed by nauseating plastic colors, the rashy skin of a leather couch, and the endless screaming of floral patterns. The walls are precarious stacks of paper bricks - a structural facade. The figure often renders as two-dimensional as a paper doll – a lifeless pawn to be draped across the couch like the nude Venus of Urbino. The diptych stretches and distorts the body beyond real dimensions, confronting a societal obsession with the body and its appearance, past and present-day. Fallen hair which might otherwise be insignificant residents of the shower drain become pillars or monuments - conditionally oscillating between the beautiful and the grotesque.