+ DREAMHOME 1994

Limited Edition Print (Edition of 40)




Houses live inside us
Dreamhome is a limited edition print representing the layout and contents of the house I lived in. Houses that we live in also live within us as Bachelard describes.

These memory architectures are lived spaces and are as real as the houses we occupy, but even if the building still stands, they are places which are gone, they are no longer within reach, they only exist in daydreams.

How we see them in our minds eye is unique to each of us. The image is intended to encourage imaginative projection and occupation. The model was created in Virtus Walkthrough, software which allowed for the real time navigation of cartesian space. Still images can be exported as vector files and this becomes part of the nature of the material.

The viewer is positioned above the object offering an overview as if peering into an architectural model a form of cutaway with the ceiling removed. It is a simplified model offering basic forms and layouts. Flats above and to the side of the property are absent, leaving a fragment of the structure.

This print was donated to an exhibition curated by my very good friend and colleague Robin Jenkins. The exhibition will be in Japan in an area affected badly by the Earthquake and Tsunami - an area where many homes have been swept away. Some places we cant go back to because they have changed, some we can no longer return to because they are no longer there. These places however will live on in the minds of those who occupied them.