Ngủ Ngon/Sweet Dreams

5 x 5 x 7 ft
PVC, polyester drafting film

 

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. 

 

The 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 connects the present with previous self, balancing preservation and recognizing how a growing self transforms memory.