The artist questions the Villain; in this installation titled Villain Sanctuary.  The artist questions her role in her own story – taking original inspiration from the writer Andrea Dworkin and her book Women Hating. Where she dissects fairy-tale literature and reveals that the female Villain, the evil persona must be destroyed and cannot be in sustainment with male power. The appointed wicked witch is always ambitious, single and fierce.

The artist enables the audience to question “The Villain”. The installation holds a gothic dark tone that incorporates the doppelgänger. Traditionally the appearance of the doppelgänger signifies death, and where death appears so does birth. The piece reveals a cleansing process, a place in which the villain goes for refuge.

The use of mirrors in the artist’s work is crucial as it underlines themes of narcissism. Living in a narcissistic society we are constantly met with our reflection, not just mirrors all reflective surfaces. This rings true to the Greek myth of Narcissus, where the name narcissist stemmed from.  This is where the beautiful boy Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.  The artist therefore involves the audience in her work as they are continually met with there own image in the installation. They are doubled and offered with oneself or another self? Which creates a separation, a duplicate.