“This House Is Not a Home” reflects a frustration with the persistent struggle for women's empowerment in the U.S., highlighted by the recent socio-political climate. Despite progress, women remain excluded from permanent positions of power, with societal backlash reinforcing regressive ideas. This series transports us to a time when women were confined to roles as homemakers, where the home became both their domain and their prison.

Through my series, I explore the metaphor of the home as the patriarchy; a structure that limits autonomy and reinforces objectification. The participant is depicted merging with her environment, her identity obscured and diminished by the very space that defines her. This space symbolizes her entrapment, as she becomes indistinguishable from the home itself, embodying the loss of agency and selfhood. By blending realism and abstraction, the series invites viewers to consider how societal constraints on women persist, transforming historical struggles into a contemporary call for change. ​​

These images also carry something deeply personal: they reflect my own quiet fear of entrapment, of being confined to a single role or space. The participant's blurred presence mirrors an internal anxiety; that autonomy might erode beneath the weight of expectation, and that identity could dissolve into the very structures meant to contain it.

(All images were created with a large format 4x5 film camera.)