Drawing on her upbringing on Long Island, and the ubiquity of dated thrift-store fabrics in her childhood home, Scanlon uses pattern and its disruption to function as a stand-in for order and disorder more broadly. In reproducing and disordering patterns, her work depicts the tensions inherent in human attempts to structure life’s chaos, and the pleasure these tensions can create. Scanlon favors objects with signifiers of home (and supposed comfort) alongside clashing color and disorienting visual space to discuss the domicile, sexuality, chaos, and the anxiety the confluence of these things produces.