The Home Experience
Weining Huang
If you were to draw your home, how much detail are you able to capture? This mundane space, a home environment, is often taken for granted. When facing everyday activities such as commuting to schools or offices, it is safe to say one can reach their destination blindfolded. As we open the door and enter this space where all of our habits and mundane chores occur, the blindfold analogy suddenly sounds sarcastic. We are often blinded by what is closest to us. It is like neglect and mistreatment of a lover after spending a long time together. As time goes by, the dopamine in the brain fades, and one's love for a home space goes away. Home is now a big soulless box. How do we regain passion for our intimate environment as well as life?
Playing with the fluidity of black thread allowed me to weave different images at home. The exploration shows versatility of a simple, cheap, and daily material easily found at home as a mechanism to explore.
A timed sketching activity that took place under faint light at home to observe how lights from digital devices attracts one’s attention to see. The results aim to show what we see at home is a collage between the digital world and the physical space.
Make A Scene derives from makeup cotton pads and wires at home that are not often associated with home. I want to embrace and emphasize the un-homely elements as a realistic part of a home.
This video explores the home visual language traveling from the urban environment to home.
Cultural Probe: An Invisible Housemate. The goal is to gather information of how the home of different internet users look, and their perception of home. The kit also includes a clear acrylic box for participants to image of the Internet.
