Domestic Bliss

Staging fictitious, dark, domestic scenarios using my daughters, husband and self as actors, while working with metaphor, irony and satire to comment and create conversation on the timeless subject of family/ parenthood/relationships within the larger context of current societal issues like gun control, suicide, class, and privacy loss.

American proverbs, idioms and old biblical sayings are the springboard to construct each dramatic set-up. Each image is about being in absolute control, and facilitating everything from lighting to directing to clicking the shutter to playing a conflicted homemaker at center stage. Personal obsessions with twists of darkness are deliberately inserted to add to the complexity, and create a stylized subtext, and often sexually suggestive undercurrent: a noose, a handgun, a child guzzling a bottle of wine, a hard body handymen in the house and cigarettes to calm frayed nerves. Coming together as a marketing campaign “of sorts” for the ideal life, Domestic Bliss is staged as a highly controlled family ‘tableau vivant’.