Split

2017

45 x 62 x 74 in

brick and wood

“For [each person] must have somewhere to go.” Dostoevsky’s words remain true today as they did when he wrote them. Everyone needs a place to go where they feel valued: where they feel at home. The house form represents that idea of safety and belonging. Many look at the house admiringly, as Rebecca Solnit says in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness, “often imagining entering them, living in them, having a calmer, more harmonious, deeper life.” The house form is identified as the perfect, stable home that we all desire. 

Unfortunately, the home is not always a stable place. The stable exterior may not represent the fractured interior. This unstable reality is due predominantly to individual relational issues manifested within a household. The experiences one has had in their own household informs how they will view the house form. Given this, my work is meant to propose the idea of the home while the viewer ponders the reality of it. In effect, this body of work prompts an introspective response from the viewer by the use of bricks and wood which alludes to the average modern American home through building materials. 

What Are You Hiding?

2017

18 x 18 in

brick and excavated earth

Isolation

2017

9 x 9 x 2 ft

excavated earth

Interior Isolation

2016

10 x 10 x 3 ft

excavated earth