My Own Hair
My Own Blinds

The work began with me noticing hair on the blinds in my rented flat: the blinds were covered with the hair of previous tenants. What stayed with me was not simply the dirtiness of it, but the unexpected sense of loss it produced. As part of a generation priced out of home ownership, I began to think about the ordinary domestic future I had grown up expecting, and the possibility that it might never arrive.

Young people are often described as immature while being denied access to many of the material conditions traditionally associated with adulthood, particularly secure housing. Rather than reject that accusation, I wanted to adopt it. If I cannot own the home or its blinds, I can at least make my own set of blinds and put my own hair on them. This deliberately childish and inadequate gesture turns a structural frustration into an absurd act of personal correction.

Painted in “landlord white,” the blinds evoke the sterile neutrality of rented spaces: homes that can be occupied but rarely altered or possessed.

I do not desire dirty blinds; I desire the ordinary circumstances in which those blinds could belong to me.

ArtBeats Festival, Lancaster — 3–6 September 2026. The work is currently held at home and is scheduled to go on display during the festival. Installation photographs and confirmed display details will be added after the exhibition.