Rooms we carry in our heart

The “essence” of a space is captured by the ability of the place to remind one of their specific people and memories that they thought they had forgotten or simply make oneself nostalgic. My workspace is a space that holds more than just mere objects, it holds a way of being. For this project I wanted to capture not what the room looks like externally, but what it feels like from the inside, or more like how powerful places can be to remind you of things. Moving through three places in my project, which are the dining table, the bookshelf, and the vinyl section, the viewers get to experience the space in the same way a memory feels, fragmented but each carrying its own emotional weight, and together making a museum of memories. The gallery tour format felt natural because these objects deserve to be looked at slowly and somewhat be guided, I wanted the viewers to look at it the way you'd look at something when you're afraid of forgetting. I chose a passage from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong, because it does what I wanted this experience to do, pull viewers into a feeling without any warning of nostalgia. The technical process was not without challenges, getting clean 3D scans with manageable polygon counts, and layering audio correctly in STYLY took significant iteration and still isn’t perfect, but the imperfections in the scans felt honest as memory too, is never perfect. I hope the viewer leaves feeling like they've been inside someone's memory.