In "Place Setting" (2023–2024), developed during my residency at the Women's International Study Center, I investigated domestic labor as a way of uncovering the often-invisible work done across generations. Using vintage cookbooks and artifacts from the museum's collection, I recreated recipes and staged sculptural installations with ornate silver sets—objects that felt more like religious relics than practical tools. These carefully composed 1970s-inspired scenes, which I then destroyed, performed what Silvia Federici calls "the reproduction of labor power." The work honored feminine labor while questioning the constraints it imposed. The resulting exhibition sold out in Santa Fe, and the accompanying film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
