The Green Room 

This piece was originally inspired by the photograph ‘Mother, Daughter, Maid’ by Rosalind Solomon Fox. I was really taken by her use of documenting real moments while capturing the strange and twisted undertones of what those moments were really depicting.

What I found interesting in this photo was how she managed to capture two different worlds existing alongside side one another within one small room yet somehow still making them feel like they are universes apart, and the stark reality of how different their lives and circumstances can be just depending on what hand one is dealt. 

But with this piece I decided to flip the perspective as through out time minorities have often been made to feel out of place or unwelcome within a lot of spaces.

Despite this I didn’t want the focus to be on the difference in caste and where they sit within the social hierarchy of the world but more so on the distance and contrast between two worlds existing within one singular space. And how often only one of those stories are retold and documented while the other one, until fairly recently was expected to exist without their narrative and voices being heard. As the quote from Sun Ra says “History is his story, you haven’t heard my story”.