Looking to Live in a Tiny House

Many young people today know what home means to them. To most, home means a place where you lay your head, and where family and friends alike congregate to the warmth of a hearth. To others, a home is simply a roof over your head and nothing more. Artist Cassady Berry, in completion of the required coursework for her major at Concord University, looks to explore and show what home means to the newer generation in her art gallery, Tiny House.

    With this gallery, Berry wishes to revamp the architectural stylings of her main inspiration for her art, Denise Scott Brown. Berry explains in her artist statement, “She proposed that architecture be treated as a living organism that needs to adapt to the environment. Her buildings are designed to grow and anticipate the needs of generations to come.”

    Berry will be showing pieces that will reflect how the complex systems of the natural world affect houses using differing colors and textures while having the insides of the houses show scenes from her personal life. Berry notes that the doors and windows to these houses are all open to denote possibilities for change in the future in both a literal and figurative sense.

    Upon completion of this gallery, Berry will have completed her degree and will go on to become a teacher. Berry emphasizes the need for a world that is changing to meet the needs of the next generation while continuing to suit the needs of the current, and will pass this ideology to the students she teaches by allowing them to participate in a project of a similar caliber and reflect upon homes all over the world. “The world is constantly changing and evolving, and we need more objects that not only embrace these changes, but plan for them,” Berry states, “Becoming a teacher requires constant reevaluation of self and cultural context. Our world is changing and we need to change with it.”

    Be on the lookout for Berry’s Tiny Houses art show, coming soon!