Through collection, curation, drawing, painting, sewing, gluing and rummaging through my parents’ basement, I attempt to rebuild the bedrooms of my past in order to escape from an adult world where I feel unsafe. Combining scavenged finds from my childhood with crude reconstructions of my subconscious, I am exploring the ways I learned to play as a child through the objects I encountered and how they shaped my identity. Fully investing in the aesthetics of softness, quietness, girliness, and naïveté while maintaining my distinctly adult narrative voice illustrates the tension between the joy I derive from stereotypically girly things and the burden they impose, as well as my longing for the past despite my existence in the present.