This project is a reflection of the chambers of the heart equated with rooms of a home. Each "chamber" houses a different emotive function of the heart, which correlates to the function of its respective room.
TO KNOW: the living room functions as a place for play, interaction, stimulation, and manipulation. It provides an environment that nurtures curiosity and accommodates influence of the external world.
TO DESIRE: the dining room symbolizes bounty and desire, marking the difference between a want and a need. An opulent setting is distastefully juxtaposed by a stack of crackers, conveying the disillusionment and emptiness of most desires.
TO NURTURE: the kitchen portrays the heart's ability to nurture and foster life, parallelled by the narrative of the egg--the most fundamental unit of life. The egg in the nest marks the beginning of life. The purpose of the egg is shifted for human nutrition -- packaged in an egg carton to ship to the consumer, mixed into a meal, and cooked on the stove for consumption--a no less valid source of life.
TO HOPE: as a caged bird sings dreaming of its freedom, so too does the heart retain hope through life's highs and lows. The ability to hope enables one to dream with purpose and create with intent. Hope bestows peace at the present and promise of happiness in the future.
TO CLEANSE: as problems come and go, the heart must let go of its burdens if ever there is hope for the future. The bathroom captures the whimsy with which children enjoy bath time but also the rebirth of a sort of optimism when negativity is allowed to wash away.
TO FEAR: the bedroom captures all the things that "go bump in the night." When the lights go out, a child's imagination can be a source of infinite terrors. But even as adults, night terrors are no less real, haunted by today's failures and tomorrow's worries.
