Chelsea admires the improvisational play of unexpected relationships and its complex connotations to themes of the home. Inspired by the Victorian era and its psychological impact on domesticity, led Chelsea to explore concepts of confinement, constraint and the historical attitudes of passivity and submission that are often associated with the traditional craft of “women’s work”. Breaking away from those rules of tradition, laborious processes such as embroidery and hand quilting techniques, aim to push the compositions into a state of emerging hysteria and reclaimed mindfulness.