The aim of this study is to explore the subtle yet ever present relationship between Dwelling and Dweller, so as to magnify this condition and procure a more acute sense of how are physical surroundings impact our daily rituals and respond to our individual identity. The work will utilize myself as both the investigator and the investigated, with my current residence (59 Englewood Avenue) acting as the site and instigator of the research. Broader subjects expected to be confronted through this experiment will be topics such as Routines/Habits, Familiarity/Nostalgia, Self-Awareness, Surrealism, and Utility/Functionality.

Investigations into this relationship will be conducted via extensive reading, writing, documentation, and drawing. The media produced and discussed will piece together fragments of everyday life and their physical relation to home, so as to generate responses/events that engage these newly realized threads. As of now the proposed product of the research is a series of imagined interventions within the home itself that will engage both Dwelling and Dweller in curiously fantastic and pattern altering ways. Using the photo and video documentation, alongside highly detailed drawings of the home and interventions, collages will be crafted that embody the active spirit of the work. Narrative “fairytales” will then be drafted to accompany the drawn work and add new layers of meaning onto the product. It should be made clear that the proposals are not intended to enhance the quality of life for the resident or improve the buildings performance in any particular way. The purpose of the interventions are to manipulate habits, instill fascination, and generate self-awareness relative to the home.

The implications of this work should be  a more experiential understanding of our homes and the endless everyday relations that occur within them. How they shelter, provide, engage, respond, and in trance us; and how we maintain, interact, furbish, and sustain them.