Anna Marsden’s current and ongoing installation project, ‘I need to start a garden’, is a study of stains, feminine identity and the haunted nature of houses. Her experimental and material photographic practice is rooted within the analogue and haptic as it explores bruises, marks and soulstuff. Tangible and bodily, Marsden’s process weaves relics with souvenirs, echoes and the world on the side of shadows. Created in the domestic domain from start to finish, this project is a site specific work that explores the home as a trace, a stain itself that holds ghosts of women past. By making herself into a texture to be felt between finger and thumb, Marsden's installation brings the privacy of home into the public sphere, playing with the relationship between the camera and the self. Are we at the mercy of photography? Where does the self end and the process begin? As the work yields to the home and the stains seep on the washing line, is the domestic a trap or are we spared?