Home Is Where
These images of miniature homes, the toys salvaged from an old box, worn, dusty, slightly damaged. These photographs imperfectly edited accentuate the constructed, synthetic quality of the images. Through their scale and presentation, they reflect on the idea of home as something commodified, an artificial concept something selected rather than inhabited, more isolating than comforting. By removing familiar signifiers such as lawns, people, neighborhoods, and even sentimentality, the work intentionally distances itself from nostalgia. In doing so, it questions whether the essence of home resides in architecture at all, or if it is, instead, something more elusive. In this work, home becomes not a structure, but a question.- Steven J. Duede