This project reflects on the housing crisis and its impact on our sense of home. The scene is composed of paper replicas of houses I once called home - echoes of memory and unstable living conditions. The fragile paper architecture reflects the instability of contemporary housing and how elusive the idea of home has become for many people of my ⁠generation. These delicate constructions evoke a precarious housing landscape and make visible a deeper experience of uprootedness. The work explores how temporary rental contracts, lodging with live-in landlords, and the absence of a permanent home can affect one's sense of belonging. The painting moves between belonging and alienation, connection and disconnection, tracing a continuing search for shelter, security, and a place to land.

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In this new body of work, I introduce paper stop-motion characters. Sharing the same fragile materiality as the architectural models, they embody vulnerability, solitude, and introspection. Creating these figures led me into a new way of working: I model them digitally, generate UV texture maps, and translate these into printable paper templates that are folded into physical objects. They become part of a chain of translations: from digital model to paper sculpture, and ultimately to oil painting.