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. Carroll revels in the “crazy fictionalised stage sets that came to life. They were so saturated in colour, and each scene is so beautifully conceived. That era was about the perfect housewife and the perfect interior.”Drawing on her training in graphic design, Carroll grounds each scene in a colour scheme, and then allows the narrative to slowly unfold inside her studio on a specially constructed 2.4 x 2.4 metre space, with sidewalls that can be added or removed as the picture demands.
“We just did a picture yesterday. I wanted to do a bathroom picture with pinks and purples. I was at a cheapy fabric store in Miami where you can buy for $2.50 a yard, so I did and shipped them to back to myself. Then I went online and found the perfect shag rug. I’ll start with some things and we’ll get in the middle of it and then I’ll have to get more stuff or I will remember we have things in the garage.
The garage is where Carroll keeps dozens of plastic bins filled with props, echoing a defining moment of her childhood. “When I was four, there was a lady next door with two daughters. They had a side porch full of dolls, doll clothes, doll furniture – there were trunks of stuff and it was such a treat to go over there and rummage through these things, and find the right doll to play with the girls. That is what my garage is like – it’s the adult playhouse full of stuff.
In response, the ‘anonymous woman’ was born. Carroll began photographing busts of mannequins with domestic objects like a head of lettuce or a frying pan placed in front of their faces so that their identity was reduced to a servile activity. Then, after her niece joined the US Marines and went to Iraq on the first sortie following 9/11, Carroll began to think about all the women whose homes were being destroyed and the project took on a new dimension.
“At the time I was trying to create a mythical perfect home,” Carroll recalls, describing her experiences renovating her former Indiana ranch house to its perfect 1950s charm. The irony was not lost on Carroll, and began to find its way into her art, transforming stresses and fears of everyone who has ever run a house.
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