"White Picket Fence"

A fence usually signals certainty — marking what’s owned, who belongs, and where limits are set. The white picket fence, especially, carries the promise of stability, identity, and the “good life.”

Here, that fence slips out of place. Tilted and suspended, it’s neither upright nor fallen. Cutting diagonally through the room, it turns something familiar into something uncertain.

In this in-between state, the fence changes how you move. You duck under it or walk around it, adjusting your body in small, instinctive ways. These quiet gestures reveal how we navigate boundaries that shape not just access, but identity — who feels welcome, who hesitates, who passes through.

Instead of enforcing a border, this fence asks why we draw them at all. It becomes a space of pause and possibility, suggesting that boundaries — and the identities they enforce — are not fixed truths, but structures we can question, shift, and move beyond.