Alanna's work consists of a two part process involving the physical construction and consequent photography of un-inhabitable spaces.
The immersive qualities of these photographs initially seduce by appearing as un-inhabited, everyday, familiar rooms. As time elapses however, the viewer is denied the freedom to orientate oneself in a specific time or place. Deprived of comfort, the space under closer inspection reveals an emptiness and lack of function.
Despite a sense of absence, the delayed perception of the rooms' reality evokes a longing that embraces the melancholic nature of uncertainty and nostalgia. It is in this delay that Alanna's respect for painting and the organisation of space is most prevalent.
Through the implementation of confrontational boundaries and walls, Alanna isolates space creating a theatre: staging the scenes of an absent domestic life and acting as a method of restriction, one may not fully enter her environments.