Unreal Estate is a drawing series about homes you can never inhabit — because they can’t exist. Using graphite and charcoal, I render stairways to nowhere, windows without rooms, and interiors that defy architectural logic. These imagined structures explore the longing and mystery bound up in housing: once a symbol of stability, now increasingly unattainable. An Earthship I once stayed in — built of trash and vision — revealed how magic can appear on a desert landscape, a counterpoint to the blandness of suburbia. These drawings aren’t nostalgic; they are refusals. They push back against the logics of optimization, property, and permanence, keeping alive the dream of places where absurdity and wonder take precedence over utility.

Stairwell to Confection

Light-Filled (pending)

Emotional Architecture

Window Seat

Roof Access

Sleeping Unit with Bear

Fireplace with Confusion

Outlet

A head and its shadow

Fake Escape

Framed Cat

Shell Village