The illusion of “home” and the fabrication of desire inform this piece both conceptually and formally. Since moving to southern California, I have been particularly drawn to the alienating quality of the suburban landscape. I am interested in the fantasy of escape and how westward expansion has created sites of excess made to entice. Man’s desire to control and confine nature versus the desire to ‘return to nature’ creates formidable tension. Through a lens of female subjectivity I examine this desire for the landscape to be something it isn’t.