Yellow Wallpaper

Based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s writing, The Yellow Wallpaper. The story itself surrounds women’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown, and the treatment of the time for each of these. This was known as the rest cure. Other topics that were touched on were those of feminism and gender norms in the 19th century.

I wanted to visually portray how the main character feels herself being absorbed and consumed by the pattern of the wallpaper. The wallpaper symbolizes family structure, medicine, and tradition, but more importantly, it symbolizes her personal prison and how she is trapped within domestic life. Visual symbolism of despair, resentment, and sadness within the floral design shows buttercups, petunias, and rose stems with thorns.

DIMENSIONS: 6” x 9”

MEDIUM: Digital