Where we live
In my years as an architect I have visited an infinite number of houses and I have observed constructive elements, structures, distributions, finishes...but above all I have been analyzing something that is not seen with the eyes of a technician, it is appreciated with experience and curiosity, and it is the soul of each house, which is expressed in the way we inhabit it.
"WHERE WE DWELL" is the name of a series of sculptures inspired by the fact of inhabiting.
Because to inhabit is to have a habit, a custom, and to belong to a house is to belong to a family and therefore to follow its customs. These habits make us grow, protect us, limit us, condition us.....
After many years observing the soul of the houses I have seen many types of families and homes and in each of these homes, there were very similar habits regardless of the place, social class or economic condition. The houses housed families, human beings, and every detail of them was not casual, it was the most faithful reflection of their lives and also conversely our lives are conditioned by where we live.
We inherit and learn the way we conceive space, how we move in it and how we distribute it, in the same way that we call home the place where we feel safe, because our home is not where we live, but where our loved ones live.
And the home where we are born creates invisible structures that condition the way we see the world. The windows through which we look at the world are usually the ones in our homes.
In this series of sculptures I make a metaphor through different constructions of how we human beings live and how the different architectural elements dialogue with each other to produce different sensations in the observer.
No animal builds its nest bigger than necessary, only man is capable of losing the scale and inhabit oversized places for pure ostentation in the same way that no animal builds a shelter that can harm him or his family and man without being aware builds, sometimes, harmful homes.