"This painting depicts the interior of my 1990’s Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouse. During quarantine I spent a lot of time at my parent’s home in Northwest Washington state. As boredom got the better of me I found myself tearing through the garage and unboxing this dust covered crown jewel. I photographed the dollhouse incessantly, arranging and rearranging the furniture as I document the little plastic family. As a child, the dollhouse is where I taught myself about relationships, mortality, ethics and countless domestic tropes I would grow up to question. A dollhouse is such a common children’s toy for my generation, it’s quite startling to consider what mature and dark themes have played out through my dolls before I had the context to understand the long-term implications. "

- Claire Burkett

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