statement:
In and Out of the Hole consists of three nearly identical photographic portraits of the artist and her partner standing on the grass in front of a home. The slight variation between the images comes from a shift in the couples’ height and the addition of a shovel, a pile and a hole. The artist appears taller than her partner on the grass, then the same height as she stands in a hole and finally shorter as he stands on a pile of dirt. The triptych calls into question the representation of gender roles through humorous subversion of the idealized photographic portrait. The work examines how known cultural myths seep into our photographic unconsciousness affecting our understanding of feminine and masculine subjectivity.