Each of these images is part of a larger installation, where the theme (whether, shoes, rebar and aprons, or slips) is repeated in ways that forge a relationship among the participating elements and the viewer. My work is influenced by gendered symbols from popular culture, by textile craft, and by a nostalgic look at 1950s and 60s Americana.  In 2008 I began working with the idea of slips, photographing them folded neatly in piles, hanging knotted from hooks on the wall, or woven into grid-like sculptures. In 2009, I began working with a 1956 crime scene photograph of two women being booked on prostitution. The installation zooms into the ‘crime scene’ with four abstracted variations on the original photograph, each printed on silk, and hung from parallel wires to cast shadows resembling a cityscape. In the rebar and apron sculpture, I curved eight-foot lengths of rebar to resemble silhouettes of a body, and tied a hostess apron around the waist, or held in the fingertips.