The Deteriorated American Dream Series 

In The Deteriorated American Dream Series, the artist juxtaposed photographs of her mother deliberately acting eccentrically against letters her mother wrote her in all seriousness. This calls into question the shifting boundaries between child/ adult, fantasy/ reality, sanity/ insanity, and comedy/ tragedy.

Growing up under peculiar circumstances, everything the artist was told she could not take at face value, truth was something fluid and interchangeable in her household. Because of this she became fascinated by the interplay between extremes: how one thing can quickly become its opposite if it is inherently too much itself: something so serious it becomes comical- or the truth behind every joke. In addition, she became interested in how extremes define one another: white would not be defined the same if we did not know the darkness of black.