Though photographer Laurie Simmons never explicitly aligned herself with the feminist movement of the 1970s, much of her work grew out of the period’s changing cultural climate. In the theatrical image Walking House, Simmons attached a toy house to a pair of feminine legs in high heels. Likely a reference to a drawing by Louise Bourgeois, an artist of an older generation celebrated for exploring gender roles through the lens of personal experience, Simmons’s creature represents woman as inseparable from domesticity and her role in the home. At the same time, the photograph recalls lighthearted childhood games of animating everyday objects.