Tessa Domsky

Girlhood is a fluid body in perpetual motion, its integral liquidity linked to the natural state of both femininity and the child as a slippery, nuanced cultural construction. Inspired by a childhood obsession with Victorian dollhouse miniatures, my work is a spectral examination of the phenomenon of Girlhood and its connection to: gothic literature and the evolution of tuberculosis aesthetics via consumptive beauty in the digital age; the image of Woman and the uncanny, the return of the repressed; and pain as an avenue for ornamentation.  Through my painstakingly tedious mechanical process, I reference the aesthetic bounty of content online and its similarities to the gothic trope of the woman made beautiful by death. I expose the sentencing of generations of women to the domestic, which has birthed the spirit of home as Woman. I peel back the layers of my figures and expose the open wounded truth of inevitable, violent femininity. 

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