The neoclassical white column announces and asserts power—specifically white power. Since the founding of our country, this architectural emulation of ancient “culture” has operated as a racially coded signal.

Like the carefully placed column, white women have also served and sustained the mutually constitutive relationship between aesthetics and race.

I use found materials, stage public interventions, and misapply traditional photographic tooling to try to co-pt the tools of the historically advantaged. In repurposing the column and the camera I bear witness to the privileged narrative that pervades both civic and domestic space.

By leaning into my own matrilineage as well as the history of the photographic medium, I consider the way white women continue to serve themselves by serving the patriarchy.