Yellow Wallpaper

During the first quarantine, I became acutely aware of the fragility of my own mind. I felt as though I was being eaten from the inside out as each day brought a new crack in my emotional composure. As a woman I often find myself repressing my emotions in order to stay calm and collected. Constantly worried about being deemed overdramatic or hysterical, I cast doubt upon each passing feeling, often stuffing away any reactionary emotion to an unknowable corner of myself where it sits and festers. Inspired by the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by the feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yellow Wallpaper delves into this complicated relationship I have with my femininity as I struggle to break out of the oppressive gender norms I have fallen into. Through a process of cathartic performance art, the piece documents a process of emotional release as I attempt to break free from my feminine emotional bonds.