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MINOR INVASIONS

The overtly fabricated dollhouse tableaux bring to the forefront dark psychological themes that depict a realm of imagination in which the power to control domestic environments is complete. The scenes evoke sublimated fears and desires and explore tensions between childhood innocence and aggression. Gigantisized fingers, hair, artifacts, elements, and unseen destructive entities act out against the unassuming environments. These transgressions reference adult anxieties that emerge early in life - desires for power and control; fears of natural disasters; domestic violence; understanding of our own potential for destruction; and the unknowable terrors that threaten to invade the tranquility of our insulated spaces of domesticity.

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