Heritage Square is an ongoing project about the afterlives of buildings and the politics of where history is allowed to live. The site is a small museum of Victorian houses relocated from across Los Angeles—structures uprooted from their original neighborhoods and assembled into a curated village at the edge of the Arroyo. I became interested in the quiet dissonance of that gesture: homes preserved as artifacts, but removed from the communities and histories that once gave them meaning.

The project begins with the houses themselves—their porches, their ornament, their foundations set down in unfamiliar soil. Each structure carries the trace of its displacement, a record of the city’s shifting priorities and the stories it chooses to protect. I treat the site as both archive and stage: a place where architecture becomes evidence, and where absence is as present as the buildings that remain.

My work at Heritage Square moves between photography, drawing, and writing, tracing the tension between preservation and erasure. I’m interested in what happens when a house is lifted from its context, when site specificity is severed and then re‑performed in a new location. The project looks at the gap between what is saved and what is lost—the distance between the original neighborhoods and this curated afterlife.

Heritage Square becomes a lens for thinking about Los Angeles itself: a city built on constant movement, demolition, and reinvention. By spending time with these displaced houses, I’m trying to understand how memory is constructed, how history is staged, and how architecture can hold both rupture and continuity at once. The work is slow, observational, and atmospheric—an attempt to listen to what remains when a place has been moved.

Pictured below : Mock up of gallery view for proposal