This work stems from a photograph taken 7 years ago of a boarded up building located near the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, and has developed into a reflection of post-war housing and the influence of economy on residential areas through boom and bust. The photograph has been digitally altered to shift between superficial “proposals,” of updates or aesthetic alterations. This building is cyclically in a state of neither being completely updated or removed and is meant to parallel the state of a home under constant renovation. A wood 2 x 4 that has been cast in urethane foam is presented in array of colours not unlike colour swatches found in the Home Depot paint aisle. Both the houses and building materials are variants of small-a architecture - the built spaces around us that are in states of flux between disrepair and remodeling.


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