Oil on canvas, two 48 x 30 inch panels

In this diptych painting, Youtube star Sandra from Learn Your Necessities: How to Cook, Clean, and More! returns, continuing to destabilize conventional ideas about women’s work. However, Sandra has changed; instead of one Sandra there are nine, all working to tackle the endless drudgery of domestic labor. These Sandras are stuck in the afterimage of the outmoded 1950s housewife, trapped in the ceaseless cycle of maintenance labor; never progressing, always working. Sandra finds herself confined to the kitchen which has become a self-contained world, untethered from reality. Time and space distort unexpectedly, unsettling notions of gendered labor and rendering these familiar tasks absurd. The only cracks in this self-enclosed world are flooded by the otherworldly blue light of the screen, promising nothing but a technological void beyond Sandra’s dingy yellow walls. If the first iteration of Sandra, the Youtube star, was the artist’s alter ego and nightmare, then these new Sandras are her nightmare. Sandra’s greatest fears about entrapment, labor, and gender roles have become all-consuming, evacuating reality itself.