Fortress for Hysteria:
This series explores the 19th century constrictions that society set on women and the efforts to confine them to the home. Often not valued for their own personalities, talents and endeavors, women relied on embroidery and its progress as proof that long hours were spent doing nothing else. This domestic art is often associated with docility and meekness and used here in an attempt to create a sense of protection, a fortress to arm oneself against those attitudes of passivity and submission that can deprive women and render them prone to hysteria.
