Sitting Pretty
2025

Digital collage from photographed and digitally manipulated found media

This collage plays with the language of childhood nostalgia and the subtle lessons embedded in popular culture. A retro television becomes an altar of girlhood, broadcasting carefully curated images of femininity; sleek, playful, and obediently alluring. Below, an audience of childlike figures watch, echoing the way society observes, judges, and shapes young identities.
Sitting Pretty asks what it means to grow up under these gazes, and how much of ourselves is performed for them.