You Draw My House, I’ll Draw Yours, (2025)

You draw my house, I’ll draw yours is a collaborative work between Ezri Horne and Indigo Conat-Naar. It consists of 53 cyanotypes that document an iterative exchange of memory. To make it, we each took turns describing the layout of our childhood homes while the other attempted to draw it.

These pencil drawings were then turned into transparencies and used to make blueprint cyanotypes on paper. Meanwhile, the verbal descriptions were recorded and transcribed letter by letter using an engineers’s lettering set with a rapidograph pen filled with cyanotype fluid. This is a tool that engineers and architects used to create uniform lettering on documents before computer printing. My own grandfather, a land surveyor, used this tool in his own work.

throughout the creation of this work, war and destruction is raging in Gaza. In January, Doctors Without Borders shared that, after 15 months of war, 92% of housing units, and about 70% of all structures in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. Since the Nakba in 1948, Palestinian families have been holding onto keys to homes they can never return to. For many families in Palestine and beyond, home is a memory steeped in loss. We have had the privilege to remember our homes without this shadow—both houses exist, and if we wanted to, we could show up tomorrow and knock on the door. You draw my house, I’ll draw yours is dedicated to those who do not currently have shelter, and those who have been violently removed from their homes by forces beyond their control. 

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