In my work, I combine the image of the perfect, innocuous skinny girl with disruptive slapstick set in a Twilight Zone episode. Utilizing video, sculpture, and sound my works create a pastel paradise with hazy undertones of societal critique, paranoia, and anxiety. My work is informed by my ongoing research into inequity in the art world and art history texts, striving to create more inclusivity through education. I deploy the Barbie aesthetic to create a narrative that revolves around the dream dollhouse, playing with dolls, and scale. By creating private, intimate spaces, such as bedrooms and bathrooms, I showcase the power of quiet vulnerability. My works provide snapshots of solitary, intimate moments most often hidden from public view, highlighting the melancholy enjoyment of solitude. Viewers watch as the prim and proper facade falls, deepening the sense of loneliness as the character unravels--and finally takes ownership of that unraveling. In conjunction with using traditional female materials and labor practices of textiles and fabrics, I also integrate the matriarchal figure of “Grandma,” creating a dialogue of fibers and their comforts and discomforts. I want my viewers to find out that the perfect pastel-swathed girl isn’t so perfect after all and is just an artifact of a 1950’s time capsule.