Federico Monsalve (FM): The home is a very important stage set for a lot of your work. Why?
Marie Shannon (MS): When I was at art school and first working with a large-format camera, I used to photograph very controlled, manicured gardens, such as the Savage Memorial. I was drawn to contained outdoor spaces that someone had already made sense of. Interiors were a natural progression from this. At that time, in the early 1980s, I was making panoramas, joining images together.