Domestic Secrets, an exhibition of photographs by Julie Jaffe, opens with a reception this evening, Friday, August 1, from 5 to 6:45 p.m. at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark, across from the Community Center on State Road.

Ms. Jaffe’s work ironically combines words and images; the signature piece for this show is a dinner plate floating in water with an assortment of vegetables and a toothbrush on it. Next to the picture the copy reads: “You throw out your PVC toothbrush, it gets hauled off-Island with the other garbage and goes to Wareham where it is incinerated. The chlorine in the PVC becomes dioxin and goes out into the air. When it rains the dioxin falls into the sea and is taken up by the plankton. The fish eat the plankton. Back on the Vineyard you get all dressed up and head down-Island to a nice restaurant and you order up a striped bass dinner for fifty bucks (if you’re lucky) and you’ve just eaten your toothbrush.”

Ms. Jaffe is a Chilmark resident. The show runs through August 7.