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This project is informed by research into areas like the American Dream, zoning, and demographics as relate to the manufactured housing “umbrella”. Conversations and interviews with park residents, and collaboration with professionals involved in related academic fields and housing advocacy, expand the voices and viewpoints of the accompanying narrative.
I am especially drawn to the confined yards and entryways around homes where individual choices in ornamentation and landscaping, despite or often due to limited financial resources, express the personality of the unseen occupants.
Portraits of individual homes are also visually classified and constructed into a library of typology grids, archiving differences and commonalities within and across communities and states.
