Ngủ Ngon/Sweet Dreams

Ngủ Ngon/Sweet Dreams is a collapsible skeleton of the artist’s childhood home dressed in translucent architectural film. The work attempts to reinforce the memory of the house through repeated erection and deconstruction of its frame, while mimicking the imperfections of memory recollection in unique arrangements of its faces and compounding embellishments left on the paper each installation. 

Operations on the home’s surface are analogous to effects on memory: routine, migration and trauma. Different marks made - pen and pencil erased, film creased and uncreased, tape residue, stapled holes - have varying lifespans: some irreversible, others sublime. This rebuilding is a means of connecting to a previous self, balancing preservation with transformation.