House Project Basics

1. The medium is sculpture, but the house—not my work—is the sculpture. So the
sculpture is done before the work begins. The project (my work on the house)
hints to the house as existing art.

2. My representations are descriptions of the house, like a guidebook, or a map;

they are meant to activate the house as art. Also, insofar as they rely on an
existing external referent, the representations are neither “autonomous,” nor
“replicas.”

3. The project is a survey: there is nothing beyond recording. There is no “design” in

the project apart from how the records are produced and displayed. I consider
the house in the exact circumstances I found it when I was there. I believe this
explains why, even though I am looking at a building, the medium is sculpture,
not architecture.

4. The house is just a house I stumbled upon. It’s neither particularly significant in
affective terms, as in “my childhood home,” nor “an important piece of
art/architecture.” Additionally, it’s not that interesting—even as a generic
suburban home; it doesn’t have any noteworthy quirks or idiosyncrasies. In
short, this house has very little to no affective and/or intellectual value for me.
This is the right choice of house for the project.