Domus Nexus

Installation, 2025 - 2026

Created by the 2025 Nuit Blanche Fellowship, Domus Nexus was an immersive and interactive installation that delved into the intimate relationship between private space and collective identity; exploring how individual homes contribute to the fabric of a community. Through a cultural and personal lens, the project invited viewers to reconsider the meaning of “home” — as both a deeply personal space and a shared cultural symbol.

As one member of an 8 person team (6 Fellows, 1 Creative Director, 1 Project Manager), I had ownership over certain parts of this installation, and contributed a helping hand wherever I could to the rest. This was an extremely collaborative project, with a need to work together to resolve creative differences in order to create a cohesive exhibit.

In particular, I had ownership over the Furniture Wall. I started with the idea of putting a sofa in a studio apartment to turn it into an apartment with two “rooms”. But what if the “wall” was made of many pieces of furniture? And what if the furniture went up to head height? And what if there were all kinds of interesting compartments in the “wall”? To execute this vision, I and my team of Fellows sourced free furniture off Facebook Marketplace and Kiji. We sanded the furniture, painted it, arranged it into a “wall”, swapped various furniture legs out, attached it all together, and did our best to fill the nooks and crannies as much as possible.

As multicultural team, we brought markers of “home” from each of our respective cultures. Not only did I start life as an American, I am from the Wild West. Therefore, my contribution to filling the nooks and crannies was to create a representation of my family’s living room - tiny mismatched but comfortable arm chairs and couches, a tiny TV, a tiny Pendleton Woolen Mills rug, and tiny animal heads hanging on the wall. Everything in the living room except for the rug was 3D printed and hand painted for this exhibit. While this is not a perfectly accurate representation of my childhood home (see the unicorn and frogalope hanging on the walls), it fully captures the feeling of many homes in the region.

The outside of a blue house with flowers under the windows, built inside the L Space Gallery
The open doors of L Space Gallery, revealing an entryway to a house
The entryway to Domus Nexus
A small red compartment with miniature front room furniture and animal heads hanging on the wall.
A small child investigates a hidden compartment
A fish tank with tiny stationary fish inside a hutch
A window frames a boy sitting in the living room
A family dining table, set for dinner.
A young man typing at a typewriter
A computer game in front of a very full bookshelf
A living room
A red velvet couch with a hand printed throw and hand printed pillows
A crowd watches TV in the living room
A red velvet couch is in the foreground, a family dining table in the midground, and a kitchen in the background
A crowd of people observing a video game and very full bookshelf
A woman typing at a typewriter
A green room with tiny surreal furniture and and dinosaurs attached to the walls and ceiling.
A boy playing a computer game and smiling
A woman taking a picture of a girl in the kitchen
A woman and girl looking at the microwave in the kitchen
A young man investigating a vintage record player/radio
Two young people looking at the vintage record player/radio
A view of a black and white surreal refrigerator
A crowd investigates a surreal refrigerator
A close up image of some white pomegranates with Persian writing on them and a surreal black and white egg carton, inside a surreal black and white refrigerator
A crowd of children investigates the video game
A crowd explores the kitchen
An view of the kitchen with nobody in it
A miniature version of an apartment set up on the shelf of a bookshelf