The Windows to the Soul of the Prinsengracht.

After 18 years on the Prinsengracht, it was time to let go. Before they did, their community asked me to translate what that house had held.

I spent weeks in their world before touching any material: reading, interviewing friends and loved ones, collecting the fragments of a life lived in one place. The research became the architecture of the work.

The result is a laser-cut wooden reconstruction of the house itself, with windows made of mirrors. What you see when you look in is yourself looking back, the house as reflection rather than record. Beneath it sits a slide projector built from marble, wood, and a camera lens, holding the memories gathered from their community.

The slide box is cut from oak that also grew on the Prinsengracht. The tree recorded time in its rings the same way the house recorded it in its walls. Their memories are engraved in the material that literally shared their address.

Everything sits in a custom steel frame.

Steel, marble, oak wood, glass, paper. 85 x 55 x 12 cm.