Model Home

A performance of comfort. A blueprint drafted by someone else’s hand. In Model Home, I trace the edges of belonging with trembling lines, sketching memory into drywall, grief into window frames, silence into hallways.

This is not a house but the idea of one. A held breath. A place that almost fits. Here, domesticity is both shelter and spectacle. Pulling apart the seams of space, questioning the rooms we grow up in, the ones we grow out of, and the ones we build in our minds when no space seems to want us. It is about the choreography of living: how we move through spaces that weren’t made for us but somehow hold our shadows.

This work exists in the in-between, between the rented and the rooted, the real and the recalled, the model and the lived-in. It is a home you can walk through, but never quite settle in. The scent of somewhere else always lingering in the air. Model Home is the attempt to find the shape of my own belonging.

What is home?

As part of ‘FLEETING FORMS // momentary visions’ - 17/04/2025

FLEETING FORMS // momentary visions presents the work of first-year MFA students in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. This exhibition is a fleeting representation of where we are in our individual and collective practices—a time for our ideas to take shape together in one space. You could think of it as nine variations on a form. Even if these works will not exist together in the same way again, we hope you’ll let them linger within yourself after they’ve gone.