Designs for the Home, 2020
digital photographs
This series is a response to Janine Antoni’s “The Day She Ate Her Home,” a contribution to the book “Artist-in-Residence,” organized by Philadelphia Contemporary (viewable here).
The fable, “The Day She Ate Her Home,” is an invitation and an assignment to artists working from home during the Covid pandemic. The story follows a distracted artist who assembles a home out of food. I created and photographed miniature scenes from “The Day She Ate Her Home,” which Antoni shared as illustrations.
The digital photographs shown here are reinterpretations of those illustrations. I highlighted individual pieces of furniture, removing the sense of scale and surrounding them with dynamic backgrounds inspired by grocery store flyers and children’s furniture advertisements. Here, I have combined my interest in play and the home to create a fanciful set of furniture that the viewer can imagine interacting with.