House on Fire is a surreal, mixed-media photographic series of constructed internal landscapes and domestic scenes intended to explore themes of female bodily autonomy and psychological space through a feminist lens. A deviation from dollhouse art of the past, House On Fire is intended to be a defiant and off-putting reclamation of the private sphere that speaks to ways in which memory is housed in the body. A stage for domestic chaos, these scenes are bloody, abandoned, burnt, peeling, decayed, flooded, infested with bugs, or completely destroyed, embodying feminine rage and unrest while acting as an extension of the body. Repeated motifs of meat, gendered objects, medical equipment, and barbed wire speak to feelings of violation, grief, and anxiety through the lenses of gendered violence, illness, and objectification. 


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