What does it mean to live among the things we choose not to confront?
My graduate thesis, The Archive of the Unconfronted Self, investigates how architecture — particularly the dwelling and the landfill — acts as a repository for the human psyche, both physically and psychologically. It critiques the passive role that designed spaces play in enabling material accumulation and emotional avoidance, and reframes the home not as sanctuary, but as a curated archive of the ego.

The work asks:

If every individual were forced to live among all the objects they have accumulated, what spatial and psychological shifts would occur?

This question unfolds through a series of philosophical, architectural, and sociocultural explorations, ultimately forming a critical narrative that positions everyday objects — even those discarded or hidden — as symbols of internal conflict. Drawing from museology, psychoanalysis, and material culture, the thesis envisions a confrontational domestic architecture where the private dwelling expands into a form of public exposition. Objects typically relegated to closets, basements, storage units, or landfills become displayed artifacts — a transparent archive of selfhood, guilt, vanity, and desire.

The resulting thesis book merges critical writing, speculative drawing, and spatial theory, proposing a new typology that fuses the dwelling and the landfill — where nothing is hidden, and every object reflects back the unresolved narrative of its owner.