'Bed Bugs' is part of a larger body of work reflecting on womanhood and consequent dynamics of control (political and domestic). Tara H’s abstracted presentations of body parts, noses, faces, draw on past and present notions of female desirability.

The small women are women in totality. The faces are all in profile to avoid any sense of individuality—they are signifiers, unrecognizable outside of their purpose. All the characters are in a state of movement, walking/marching. Titled after bugs, they are pestilent and unrelenting—like thoughts. The work is representative of our subject dreaming of her attempts trying to separate herself from six marching women that dance across the pillow.

The frames are made of wood to acknowledge that all these observations are happening from within the home.

Paper is cut and folded, puncturing, and destabilising space to introduce three-dimensional depth and shadow play. Pigments are either naturally derived including deep blue lapis lazuli, walnut ink, clay earth ochre or from found materials such as crushed red London bricks.