In exploring the relationship between land, sculpted space, and digital identity,
Model Homes interweaves corrupted and broken user generated homes made in Google SketchUp with custom textures pulled from Super8 footage and CG Landscapes. In bending and fracturing these homes to their limitations, I aim to discuss how we situate ourselves in relation to our expanding external environment. Homes are constructed, fabricated, and envisioned as being a protective places, but they are also containers. One can argue that homes were the first "extension of man," (via McLuhan) and that their idealized representation often do little to stave off the "troubles of the outside world."
This piece highlights the friction between land and homes as a site where identity is formed. This conflict is similar to our relationship between digital and physical environments in that both are pursuits of imaginary ideals. The "default man" provided by SketchUp, typically used as a reference for space and scale, starts to play a role in the struggle that occurs due to "home" no longer being situated in one location; our home now exists in a network.