Meghna Mudaliar

                    


    
                                                          paintings

                      
       
       
 work




                                   
             
       
       

                   
                   
                   
                                                                        




                    


    
                                                          

                      
       
       
                Matter, Memorial, Monument     Landscape of Lacatation    Chair    Three Bodies    On Touching   Crossing Form 








This dwelling responds to the presence of three non-binary bodies
belonging to three different generations. 

                        The young ︎, the middle aged  ︎and the old ︎ .


                                                                    With the middle-aged person occupying neutral space as they tend to support the other bodies.






With every space, we must redefine and re-imagine what it means to be present in said space. If specificity and familiarity are preordained in the creation of binary spaces for binary bodies, then the non-binary body demands ambiguity. This ambiguity is translated into space-making that inherently disorients the body's experience of space.








                                If the body defines the space, ambiguity requires that space respond to the body in                                 multiple, ever-changing manners. The dwelling must disrupt the body's experience                                 of the space, just enough so that the body is constantly evaluating the spaces                                             through which they can and cannot navigate.

   

To create space for the non-binary  body, it must be indeterminate space rooted in the discomfort of living in the unfamiliar.














If we were to imagine the house as a solid, with spaces being carved around the peripheries of our bodies, then we could easily imagine that a child's path would be formally different from an elder's path. This difference implies a degree of exclusivity where each space - designed for each specific age group- becomes territorial.