This Is The Place

By constructing model rooms that amplify the design compromises common in new residential developments, I try to highlight a tension between housing as a sellable commodity and the home as place of solitude and retreat. In these pictures, notions of privacy and community are continually pushed and reformed by referencing and exaggerating the actions of developers as they build the structures that we inhabit. I also make reference to the actions of residents as they live in and adapt to the spaces that they call home. Much of my most recent work was made in response to the collapse of the housing market and stories of foreclosure, vacancy and displacement that followed. The photographs of these constructions show interiors that look unfinished, deserted and even destroyed. Often, as a last act, inhabitants of these spaces have destroyed or vandalized them as if to mark territory or as an attempt to remind others of their presence after they are gone.