"Here Everywhere" by Hans Villamayor
The 2020 pandemic has shifted the paradigm of living. Quarantines and lockdowns physically limit people to the confines of their homes. Historically, patients requiring extended-care have experienced delirium, causing short attention-span, incoherence, poor orientation and cognition. Extended quarantine has led to a similar kind of lifestyle imbalance. Here Everywhere illustrates the delirious experiences of disturbed places at the height of lockdown.
Such unease can be teased with many (paradoxically relevant) cognitive dissonances:
social / distant
cozy / claustrophobic
isolated / connected
privacy / publicity
In the midst of “these strange times,” these paradoxes blur distinctions and dimensions, imbuing architecture (spaces, surfaces, objects) with a multiplicity of meanings:
The bed is
the couch is
the table is
the desk is
the counter is
the floor is....
When there is no place to go but everything to do, everywhere is here.
When everything is available but only from home, here is everywhere.
Here Everywhere
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