Private Places
For Private Places, I used my own experiences for inspiration after spending a week in a gated community in Hawai’i. This allowed me to frame new questions around the darker sides of utopia: looking at our cultures’ impulse toward fantasy and perfectionism, I question how these ideas play out in our land-use policies and how we envision the contemporary American landscape. Neo-communal entities, self-segregation, lifestyle communities, gated communities and golf/leisure communities are all locations from which I draw inspiration and source material. At the heart of the project is the question: Who and what get excluded as we put up the gates and fortify the boundaries, and at what cost to ourselves and society?
