Domus

What happens when your comfort place becomes your discomfort place?

As society shifts to technological interactions, the home space unsolicitedly becomes the centre of operation. The home was a place one could seek as an escape. What happens when it becomes the place that one needs to escape?

Domus discusses the clinical state of the home space. It visualizes the experience of one’s safe space becoming volatile during the lockdown restrictions.

The shift to a long-term lockdown operation is a foreign experience that breeds feelings of entrapment and stagnation.

Through photographs of domestic scenes - a sink, cutlery and food - the home is represented. However, it morphs into a dystopian site, not one of safety and comfort. It is the detachment felt when trapped at home for extended periods, an act of destruction against the mental health of its inhabitants.

Domus is a personal introspection into my experiences with mental health during the lockdown and portrays an experience felt by most in the global pandemic. It seeks to reflect on the current state of society and question how we continue to adapt and respond to our environment.