Play: Photographs By Leanne Eisen

By Citizen Correspondent Leanne Eisen
Date Posted: 08/18/08 Reader Rating:

The games we play as children are rehearsals for the roles we play in life. Traditional toys for girls nurture homemaker stereotypes, simulating traditional domestic roles through play. In these photographs, I am exploring the possibility of the same staging taking place with the prolific, but publicly hidden occupation of prostitution. By constructing these scenes in miniature, I project representations of the sex industry onto the medium of the conventional doll house. As polar opposites, the homemaker and the sex worker are highly constructed and restrictive roles, the most deeply-rooted myths of the feminine.

Recreated from many sources of representation these constructed spaces can be peered-into and examined.

- Leanne Eisen
www.leanneeisen.com