Living Rooms
2013 -2017
This meta-biographical portrait series reimagines the human body as architecture, with the psyche articulated through scaffolding and structural forms. Each portrait serves as a celebratory artifact—an externalized archive of the subject’s inner world, honoring the layered complexity of their mental landscapes."
Living Rooms originally took the form of an abstract motion graphics narrative (2013) that imagines two houses (mine and my beloved father’s) in quiet dialogue, and their relationship shaped by the events unfolding within their respective rooms. Each interior becomes a psychological chamber—an archive of memory, emotion, and experience—drawing inspiration from Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. Through this framework, the work reframes domestic architecture as a metaphor for the inner life, where individual histories resonate beyond the self, as well as our potential to connect with each other through symbols and synchronicity.
The project invites viewers to consider their own internal “houses”: the structures, patterns, and unseen mechanisms that shape how they move through the world. In tracing these inner architectures, Living Rooms opens space for reflection, recognition, and shared human resonance.
Living Rooms: Mama's House | 36" x 48" | graphite on paper, printed on canvas
Living Rooms: Mama's House | 36" x 48" | graphite on paper, detail
Living Rooms: Mama's House | 36" x 48" | graphite on paper, detail
Living Rooms: Self Portrait | 28" x 34" | graphite on paper, digitally overlayed, printed on canvas | Sold.
Living Rooms: Tony's House | 17" x 28" | graphite on paper, printed on canvas