The House Is a Marionette

What is human - If objects came to life

Blurring the line between a human and an object, the furniture responds, changes, moves, and activates one another and the space, following the human who uses them. They fit, cater, and care for her. A bed hugs the body in response to the movements of a restless night and opens the shutters in the morning to allow soft light to come in. A bath fills and lifts a rug that becomes a partition wall, creating a temporary semi-isolated sanctuary. A dining table stretches and transforms from a table for two to a table for many that can host guests, only when the laundry is hung. A roof contracts and creates an enclosed refuge, allowing a south-facing warm seat to emerge that comforts the body and separates the space into a place of one’s own. This carrier bag of a house, that could hold different stories and different moments, is formed from within. Within its objects and its habitants. The house is no longer the familiar marionette, formed by a chain of external forces, it is formed and continues to reform by whoever lives in it.