Each painting in the series In One Room depicts a person at odds with his or her own particular interior emotion. In three of the pieces, a second figure is projected into the white space of the frame, creating a double portrait and an imagined dialogue between the person in the video and the original painted figure. The nature of the interaction between the two of them, however, is severely limited, and their segregate emotional experiences are highlighted by the fact that one figure appears in motion while the other remains static. Even in slow motion, the moving person looks frantic and desperate to communicate when she appears next to her motionless counterpart, who refuses the dialogue and portrays, instead, only one unchanging interior psychological state. When hung together in the shared space of the gallery, all the figures, painted or projected, are set in relation to one another as a group. Although they are in close physical proximity, however, the figures in each piece do not really interact at all with any of the figures outside of the boundaries of the frames that surround them The series as a whole is meant to emphasize the failure of traditional modes of human interaction to fully communicate the specificity of each individual's emotional reality. Although we are surrounded by people all the time, sometimes even entering into close partnerships with one another, the closest we can ever come to understanding each person's private interior is only ever an approximation.