1751 Easy St. (For Sale By Owner)

Wynde Dyer

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 personal experience, 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), without closets (an idealization of a life without places to hide), sans windows or a roof (for greater ease of examination and understanding), and ultimately wallpapered in shredded childhood photos reconfigured as grained wood paneling (suggestive of the growth patterns of human development) the house itself is an incomplete and possibly inaccurate recreation from memory, not unlike our sometimes fractured and sometimes fabricated narratives of self.
 

BIO

 
Wynde Dyer (1980) spent the first 18 years of her life in a two-bedroom home located at 1751 Easy Street, Hanford, CA 93230, before moving to Portland more than ten years ago to become an artist, curator, community builder, and maker-of-things-happen. Dyer holds an M.S. [ABT] in Communication Studies and Linguistics, and is the founder of Golden Rule Gallery, volunteer-run social experiment in creativity and commerce. www.wyndedyer.com www.goldenruleportland.com