Chelle Wallace, The Good Wife (SINGLE SHOT 2021)

This is a portrait of my mother. Like many women of her generation she took great pride in her home and keeping up appearances. She lent on many vices to bare the weight of this burden. This scene offers remnants of her but the deeper truth was mostly absent. At the same time it recognises that despite the forbidden opportunities that plagued women’s lives they not only took refuge, but excelled, in the transcendent ingenuity of lovingly curated objects that became the focus of much untapped brilliance.

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