My Home My House My Stilthouse,
My Safe Garden
My Home My House My Stilthouse can be seen in a multifunctional manner as the viewer can discover many different settings in the subject and its surroundings. It consists out of clear lines but at the same time these lines are an abstract entity. In leaving a certain roughness and openness in the work Arne Quinze gives the viewer the opportunity to discover how people conduct their lives, live around each other and order society.
My Home My House My Stilthouse is based on the idea everyone is setting their borders to protect themselves and look for shelter. The big question is: What is my house, what is my home? In every new phase in life the search for protection and shelter is certainly a continuum. From the very start, when you're just a small young human being you start building a simple booth camp under the table with white cloth where you can retreat yourself and stay in your small cocoon, a first house.
Then you start creating your second house by wearing clothes and becoming aware that running around naked doesn't give you the feeling of being safe.
In a next phase man starts building a house existing out of solid walls again seeking the ultimate protection. You're founding your territory and limiting yourself. Whiting the lines of your ground premises you want to stay their and scream it out: this is my home: My Home My House. It's a human urge to possess a house, a territory, a household… As soon as the territory is in man's possession he beacons it with high fences to create a safe haven, My Safe Garden. Every one of us has a 'Safe Garden'. Every one of us also has a 'Secret Garden', a place where they want to feel safe and protected, a place that they can claim for themselves and close off for others, a place where they are in charge of who and what gains access to this enclosed zone.
But he's still not feeling sheltered thorough, he's looking for the best view to improve his position and to escape the conditions he's still confronted with on the ground floor. A Stilthouse is built higher and higher generating the ultimate protection as no one can reach him anymore: My Home My House My Stilthouse.
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