Howling at the Moon
The tale of the girl in red has long been told as a warning against dangers lurking outside, in the forest, among strangers. Yet beneath the hood, another story unfolds.
Here, the fairy tale is not a path through the woods but a passage through the psyche. It asks how danger marks identity, how scars are carried forward, and how inherited roles blur the boundaries between choice and inevitability.
Little Red Riding Hood becomes a study in thresholds: between childhood and adulthood, inside and outside, self and other. The wolf lingers not as an intruder but as an inheritance, a presence that dwells within.
The question is no longer what waits in the forest, but what shadows we carry, and how they continue to shape the self.
about my new series
GO ASK ALICE
Go Ask Alice is a photographic series that draws on the imagery of classic fairy tales to explore the inheritance of family trauma and its imprint on identity.
Using it as symbolic starting points, the work examines how patterns, fears, and unspoken wounds from childhood are carried forward, shaping the ways we relate to ourselves and others. The figures embody danger rather than encounter it externally. Innocence, threat, and self-awareness collapse into a single presence.
Each chapter captures a threshold moment, where the subject moves from passive observation to an emerging participant in her own narrative, negotiating inherited patterns and the echoes of past trauma.
The series reflects on how the silent legacies of family history quietly shape adulthood, questioning where agency begins once the weight of inherited experience is present.
This new body of work continues my ongoing exploration of identity and societal conditioning, moving from the adult façades examined in earlier series toward the deeper origins that lie beneath. It is an attempt to ask whether we are truly free to choose who we become, or whether the path is already paved long before we realise we are walking it.
© Elisa Miller 2026
