I use these archetypes to explore the physical and psychological manifestations of anxiety, obsession and sensory overload as I experience these feelings in my body and in domestic spaces. I transform materials and objects associated with the home into unsettling versions of themselves. I draw bloody houses with yawning, mouth-like doorways. A kitchen chair offers a grotesque invitation to sit on its fleshy surface. My own hair is fetishistically applied to miniature houses and chairs. Satin fabric reminiscent of bed sheets is tightly compressed into an overwhelming abundance of pleats and gathers.

Whether drawing, painting, sewing or working with installation, my making process is repetitive and intricate. The repetition of gestures recalls activities I associate with the privacy of home, like hair brushing, cleaning or bathing. But repetition also recalls the private and internally experienced symptoms of anxiety, like repeated intrusive thoughts, catastrophizing and panic attacks. These transformations seek to tease out the inherent conflicts of feeling trapped in an apartment that protects me, or living in a body full of anxiety that is still able to care for itself. My resulting work attempts to understand the home and the body as sites that are capable of cradling and crushing the self, sites of simultaneous sanctuary and hostility.