Dream House
Dream House
relief print on fabric
8'x8'x10'
The house, represents, for me, the memory of home as well as the oneiric or dream house. By removing the skin of the house through the relief printing process, I want to allude to the relationship between interior and exterior but also introduce another habitation which is more heavily rooted in the subliminal. The oneiric house reveals a place of both the intimate and the psychological unknown, a place of what is hidden, terrifying, and mysterious, but also of what is irresistible, beautiful and familiar.
By placing the house into an environment in which exterior informs interior through the very transparency of the house itself, the work speaks to the reciprocity of the human and natural realms. Although the house is hollow, it is through its center, whereby it internalizes and reflects the outside.
On a personal level this work is about trying to navigate myself through an oneiric forest and reconcile the gap which exists between my own memory and this place. This is an attempt to negotiate the distance between what is real and what is an illusion as well as between what is present and what is past. The forest represents my search for home as well as my own manifestation of it. This forest, like the house and the doors, is a place that I unfold, unzip, and pack up to bring with me wherever I go.