The House Our Hands Built

2025

The House Our Hands Built are a series of paper and light based works, recreating romero’s familial home in Venezuela from memory. Mirroring the nature of memory, the content is fragmented, flowing through text, images, and gaps in order to bring romero’s memory (and lack thereof) into an experiential space. The works take cues from book arts in both form and methodologies, using the traditional materials along with time-based elements to create an immersive “book”. The works use light to hide and reveal parts of the memories embedded in each fragment.

Thank you to Leesa Ortiz for the photographs and video.