First published 2012
Sarah Hobbs moves through empty rooms with her camera, transforming ordinary domestic spaces into something else entirely. She arranges thousands of color samples across floors in perfect gradients. She crumples hundreds of pieces of paper and scatters them like snow. Each photograph captures a different fear, a different compulsion made visible through meticulous staging. Born in 1970, Hobbs has spent years documenting the invisible anxieties that shape how we live. Her lens finds beauty in obsession, turning phobias into art through careful composition and endless repetition. The rooms she creates speak to anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the need for control or paralyzed by irrational fear. This collection brings together three complete photographic series that celebrate rather than pathologize the human need for order in chaos.
Genres: art, psychology, contemporary, photography
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, obsession, transformation
Period: 1970s
72 pages · Hardcover · Charta
Content warnings: anxiety, mental-illness