Feminine Spaces is my personal exploration and observance of femininity, habitation, and collection. A subject I have been drawn to for years in my photography is my own bedroom, in which I capture my possessions, interests, and personality at certain points in time. My room is a reflection of my self-proclaimed girly girl tendencies and obsessive compulsive organizing, containing a stash of fifteen nail polishes, a makeup collection in my old closet turned vanity, and every issue of Vogue since August 2008 arranged by date. Feminine Spaces became a project in which to explore this compulsive interest in documenting the feminine space that I have created for myself. I began photographing in my own six by ten foot alcove space in a dorm room I share with two roommates, eventually including their spaces and other friends’ rooms.

     As this project progressed, I photographed girls’ possessions and the ways in which they decorated and organized their spaces. I noticed distinct similarities between all of us: makeup scattered about from the hectic morning routine, obsessive collections of fortune cookie fortunes, and the one special blanket on a bed. In this project I aim to point these similarities out with my camera, highlighting the textures and remnants left behind by our habits and the extent to which the ways we navigate through the spaces we create for ourselves can define us as individuals and as girls. I am fascinated by subtle details that seem so unique to girls, which can be both delicate and repellant simultaneously.