This early-stage series investigates the house as a visual and cultural emblem of what is often taken to be the ‘normal life.’ By isolating buildings of stylistic simplicity and subsequently rendering the sky black in post-production, the images stage a paradoxical temporality – day and night at once. The effect is one of estrangement: the ordinary is unsettled, the familiar exposed as uncanny.

‘Normalcy’ is never a neutral category, but a historical construction tied to ideals of stability, respectability, and belonging. The suburban house, in its apparent simplicity, condenses these aspirations into form. Yet by darkening the sky, the series fractures this image of reassurance, reminding us that what appears self-evident is also fragile, contingent, and ideological. The black sky functions as an interruption; a disruption of the ‘natural’ social order that compels us to look again and reconsider ‘normalcy’.