Scenery #1-2 (2023)

252 x 300 cm, 252 x 250 cm
Wooden sculptures

Scenery is a sculptural installation that investigates the delicate boundaries between architecture, place, and landscape. Through this work, I seek to explore the limits of architecture and its often ambiguous relationship to the natural environment. The installation aims to mark a thin, almost imperceptible line that delineates where the landscape ends and the home begins. In nature, boundaries define what we consider outside and inside, yet the home itself is a human construction a carefully staged setting where we daily create and sustain our sense of self. The work is built upon a framework of planed wooden studs, arranged to form a pure and minimalistic scenography. This wooden skeleton, standing alone in the midst of nature, faces the horizon, symbolizing both a physical and conceptual interface between human habitation and the vast landscape beyond. The skeletal structure evokes an architectural site stripped to its barest essence, simultaneously fragile and intentional.

Scenery continues my ongoing investigation into the needs and functions of architecture, particularly focusing on the spatial and experiential tension between the built environment and the natural world. The installation probes how minimal the distance can be between landscape and the living space of modern humans, questioning the traditional barriers we erect between ourselves and nature. By physically resting on and drawing support from surrounding trees, the sculpture constitutes a delicate boundary—a porous threshold rather than an impermeable wall—between what we understand as an architectural site and the unbounded landscape. This fragile partition challenges our conventional understanding of walls as mere separators, instead inviting reflection on how architecture can mediate our contact with the environment. What happens to our sense of place and belonging when this boundary is made visible yet remains open?

In essence, Scenery is an exploration of coexistence, negotiation, and the poetic tension between the natural world and human habitation. It asks us to reconsider the role of architecture—not as a fortress against nature, but as a subtle participant in the ongoing dialogue between inside and outside, shelter and openness.

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