[2][3][4] Working alone, Calypso has made highly stylised photographs of herself whilst dressed as a fictional alter-ego, "Joyce", in unusual surroundings.
[15][16] The work is about the "oppressive elements of femininity", its "restrictive beauty regimes and modern rituals of seduction".
[3][5][18] Nell Frizzell wrote in The Guardian that "there is a sense of airless claustrophobia about much of Calypso’s work.
"[13] Alexandra Genova wrote in Time that her "work is a delicate dance between comedy and despair.
"[4] Calypso has said: I used to take pictures of Joyce as a way of making a critique on the laboured construction of femininity, but now I’m starting to see that the problem isn’t the make-up and bizarre body improvement devices, but the way society treats women who invest so deeply in their appearance.