Anonymous Women: Heady

This project began while living in England, where my identity within the society was seen through aspects of my outward, domestic situation. Although I thought being identified as a Mrs. rather than Ms, artist, or woman was outmoded, I soon found that in a more traditional culture than the United States, one’s domestic status supersedes one’s professional or personal sense of self. Photographs of stark heads hiding behind various domestic objects were my response to this predicament.

Back in the USA, issues of making a home, whether through physical renovation or by an internal sense of comfort, remains a constant, universal issue for myself and for many women. In an atmosphere of perceived external threats to safety and security, the home represents a place of calm and solace. The drapery pictures are about hiding in the home and becoming part of it. Domesticity can be a space for perfection and control, where decor may substitute or hide ills or truth.