Over the past seven years, my artwork has explored various aspects of American consumer culture. Most of my work focuses on how culture, politics, and technology directly affect our lives and domestic spaces. The responsibility of home ownership and maintaining a house has always intrigued me. My mother, an interior decorator, would take me as a young girl to furniture stores and furnished model homes. As a young teen, I tagged along to open houses while my parents searched for a home to buy. Whether viewing somebody’s real home or a staged home, this has continually fascinated me even into adulthood.
Being a photographer has allowed me to further look at domestic spaces and to spend time evaluating how it represents our culture. A photograph decontextualizes an everyday space or situation and isolates for the viewer the experience of that place. By doing so, I am draw attention to the strange behaviors and situations that occur all under the guise of consumerism.