This artwork is a tribute to The Painter’s Studio, an art center based in Hanoi, Vietnam. This is an interplay of spatial constructions and the sense of belonging of an individual within that very particular place. It is how one interacts with the humans, the objects, the surroundings, and vice versa, that make up that ideation about how one could be a part of the other’s life and story.

The contradiction of motionless things and moving individuals, depicted by paper cutouts on the drawing of the infrastructure, represents how brick-and-mortar structures can far outlive the presence of human beings. Each human presence is as if a gaseous molecule, unknowable, changeable, fluctuant, stretching the constitution of memory far wider and wider until it is diffused into the endless space of time.

The sense of belonging to that place, that story, is simplified under the knife of time, is mythified under the light of romanticism, and is held static within the limitations of human memorization capacity. To build a “home” is to build a story, remember and retell that story until it becomes a mere concept.