Sarah Malakoff
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     She lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has done multiple solo show, the latest one being done in 2011 at the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
     Hey photographs are examinations of the home. She explores the ideas of the home being a refuge from the outside world and it also being a recreation of the outside world. She uses the architecture and furnishings as symbols of culture, family and nature. Many of her images have a window of a door within the scene. She intentionally does this to show that we have a border to keep the outside out and yet many of the homes have  have the essence of the out side withing their homes, in the form of patterns, simulations, and domesticated animals.
     I chose this artist because I find the the exploration of the interior of a home shows a lot about who a person is, by the way that they decorate, organize, how clean the place is/ dirty,the color choices, arrangements, can tell a lot about a person and i find it interesting. The home is accentual an extension of a who a person is.