64” x 64” x 90” 
PVC, PLA, polyester drafting film, masking tape, staples.

A collapsible skeleton of the artist’s childhood home dressed in translucent architectural film. The work attempts to reinforce the memory of the house through repeated erection and deconstruction of its frame, while mimicking the imperfections of memory recollection in unique arrangements of its faces and compounding embellishments left on the paper each installation. 


Operations on the home’s surface are analogous to effects on memory: routine, migration, and trauma. Different marks made — pen and pencil erased, film creased and uncreased, tape residue, stapled holes — have varying lifespans: some irreversible and lasting, others sublime. This rebuilding is a means of connecting to a previous self, balancing preservation with recognition of how a growing self transforms memory.

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This work was funded/faciliated by the Design + Technology Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, and the TD FCCP New Horizons Scholarship.