Alone and Outgrown (2024) takes the viewer and captures and frames them within the work itself. The artwork is surrealistic and set within a domestic scene, which pits the viewer to the face of an older woman who has taken over the top half of the room. We are invited to become a part of this scene, which the older woman observes as she is emotionally attached to the doll room; however, she cannot enter it herself. The room is depicted with great detail- the objects are seemingly from the woman’s past: a red chair, a green tea set, a vase of flowers against the grandfather clock, and angular furniture.
The shading used for the artwork casts a shadow on the scene- as though it is no longer attainable for the older woman. It is now part of a dream and thus solidifies the loneliness that the woman experiences as she longs for this space- thus, she feels excluded from her dream. This scene, therefore, has become an idealised past in which the dollhouse has become a memory of her youth contrasting with the outside world, which has socially cast her out.