Since the 1970s, Simmons has staged and photographed scenes using dolls, dollhouses and other toy objects to create self - contained worlds that function as
psychological spaces and blur the boundaries between the real, the unreal, and the
surreal.
Dealing with the paradoxes of these
surreal environments — vast, impersonal constructions such as the cities of Las Vegas and Dubai and the remote, scientific colonies of the South Pole or a commercial
space launch facility in New Mexico — Samaras» ongoing interest is in mapping political geographies and the
psychological dislocation in the everyday.