The relations that shape housing in the United States are complex, driven by politics, technology, economics and needs. They are illusory and chimerical and experienced differently across generations and demographics. However, there are moments in history when something is produced, that in hindsight, speaks clearly to certain dynamics underpinning forms of home in the U.S. 

from underneath  is an installation based on archival images of a militarized landscape. In Seattle during WWII, fake trees, fake homes, and fake neighborhoods were built on top of an airplane hangar by Hollywood set designers hired by the military. From thousands of feet above, the fake trees and houses blend into the surrounding neighborhood, effectively camouflaging the site of wartime manufacturing from foreign adversaries… read more