Familiar Weight
This project explores memory, movement, and the emotional significance objects can hold. Using 3D scanning, modelling, and printing, I recreated a sofa that travelled with me through six different homes in Sweden before being left behind when I moved to Glasgow.
Throughout the process, I experimented with different ways of viewing, analysing, and presenting the object, exploring how digital and physical forms can transform the meaning of familiar belongings. Ideas ranged from situating the sofa within virtual environments to creating a foldable paper version that could be carried flat. Eventually, the object became a 3D-printed keychain.
By attaching the sofa to everyday objects such as keys, bags, and a passport, the work explores ideas of travel, attachment, and portability. The miniature sofa becomes a symbol of familiarity and home, carried between places and accompanying new experiences.