1751 EASY STREET:
FOR SALE BY OWNER
By Wynde Dyer

A 1/2-scale recreation of my childhood home at 1751 Easy St., Hanford, CA.. Constructed on-site from memory with lath, 2x4s, nails, sod, marble, and ceiling tiles. Site-specific Installation. 
Approx. 26' W x 20' D x 9' H.

SHOWING
October 15 -- December 2, 2011
Thursday-Sunday, 12-6

@ PLACE
www.placepdx.com
Pioneer Place Mall
3rd Floor Atrium Building
700 SW 5th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204

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Following the vein of Portland-based artist Wynde Dyer's work in the area of architecture and memory, 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner, features a 1/2-sized scaled replica of the artist's childhood home. Fabricated on-site with the intention of being burnt down off-site during a post-exhibition performance, 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner engages processes of construction and destruction to explore the notion of home as both a physical and psychological space.

While the home in question houses near and far recollections of the artist’s direct experiences of loss—including the loss of her sense of safety to childhood abuse, the loss of her mother to depression and substance abuse in 2010, and the subsequent loss of her childhood home—it also convenes around the innately human search for home in one’s self and in one’s world.

Built with only internal walls (a representation of the intentional and unintentional walls built within us), sans covered windows or a roof (for greater ease of exploration), and with spaces left between the lath (to add literal and metaphorical transparency and light to an otherwise dark place), 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner is an incomplete and possibly inaccurate recreation from memory, not unlike our sometimes fractured and sometimes fabricated narratives of self.