Purple Magazine

love, a domestic mystery

ESSAY text by EMANUELE COCCIA artwork by DANIEL HEIDKAMP We have always talked about the home as the space of the private, of what separates us and individualizes us, and yet every home, in reality, has always been, above all, a material and psychic technique that we use to inextricably weave our life and our destiny with that of others. It is precisely because this is its main function that its nature is both architectural and moral. The inadequacy of our homes, therefore, is never purely architectural or aesthetic; it is above all ethical. When homes disappoint us, it’s because they fail to keep that mute promise of shared happiness that they formulated at our first meeting. Conversely, we have lost the ability to imagine houses because we have stopped building the knowledge and technique that allow two lives to live one and the same life: what we have been…

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