My animated video Pie Cycle presents the domestic figure as overbearing and questions the need for domestic life at all. Domestication is seen as a suppression of wildness and freedom. However The Bicken, my next animated video, takes a more ambiguous view of domesticity; whereas in Pie Cycle nesting instincts and wildness are seen as in opposition, The Bicken explores the necessity of their coexistence.

Depicting or implying gestures of repetition allow me to represent the struggle to maintain control in domestic space, such as in Sandwich Series. I am particularly interested in how control can disintegrate into compulsion, evidence that the spaces we create to assert control have in many ways begun to control us. This idea is taken further in The Emergence of Symbols, exploring the relationship between identity and the objects that make up a domestic space. The culmination of this work was a video installation featuring The Bicken, as well as hand printed wallpaper, table runners, and décor.

I continue to use the gesture as a means to maintain and assert control in my most recent work, which responds to urban and academic architecture. In Filling the Hole, I fill a barren hole left in my neighborhood by a condemned, demolished house with video of setting up a domestic scene of Victorian-style furniture and wallpaper. In Decorative Impulse I reconstruct a Beaux-Arts motif found in academic architecture in real flowers and fruit. As a floral arrangement subject to the life cycle of organic things, I am able to confront this symbol of power and the establishment.