DREAM HOUSE. A 4-floor house encased in glass.

On the first floor, you have the entryway, the kitchen, and a large abstract painting to the left of the door. The painting is paneling used on the side of one of my other pieces "Cubicle Matrix" that I distorted to make an … (read more)

DREAM HOUSE. A 4-floor house encased in glass.

On the first floor, you have the entryway, the kitchen, and a large abstract painting to the left of the door. The painting is paneling used on the side of one of my other pieces "Cubicle Matrix" that I distorted to make an entirely new piece. On the second floor is the living room, furnished with a rounded couch to accentuate the cylindrical walls, a mid-century modern coffee table, some pillows on the floor, and a synthetic fur rug. On the coffee is a candle and a couple of books, including George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Henry David Thoreau's "Walden". Onto the 3rd floor is an ambient and spacious bathroom with a large glass shower and a rainfall showerhead. Lastly, on the fourth floor is the bedroom, furnished with a queen-size bed, a long synthetic fur rug, an Apple desktop computer and lamp on top of a mid-century modern desk and chair, a print on the wall of the original sketch for the house, and a floor lamp with a floating light. The bedroom on the top floor of the house gives beautiful and jaw-dropping views of the city and a 360-degree orbital view of the night sky. Throughout the house are hand-crafted real marble stairs reminiscent of the baroque period, brass railing, galvanized ducting, and a pole going down the center of the house for easy access to the bottom floor. DREAM HOUSE - a true one-of-a-kind home.

The name for the house comes from two things, 1) being that this is a 3-dimensional blueprint of a house that I would want to build and live within, and 2) that when the light being walks into the house, the sequence at which he goes through the house is almost like when someone comes home from a long day. He walks into the door and is swimming through the shower, walks through the roof and into the bed, and falls through the house into the living room, and enters the dream. This could be a representation that the light being is content with this being his home and that when falling into the dream, the dream remains the reality. It also brings up the philosophical question of if our dreams are our reality, if the reality that we think we're living right now is the dream, and how would we know the difference if the dream we were having was so real that the laws of physics still applied.

The process for this was piece was done by starting in Procreate with the sketch for the house (which you can see on the left side and within the 3D print on the bedroom wall), and then building the house in Blender. After I built the house in Blender, I exported one of the frames and drew over it in Procreate, then I took that drawn-over layer, mixed it with the house in Blender, and rendered the final piece.

2021
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