During my residency in Graniti, a small town filled with abandoned houses, I lived in one such place — a half-empty home frozen in time, filled with faded furniture and family photos from the 1980s. The experience of inhabiting this “haunted mansion” inspired me to create a series of wooden dolls shaped after the retro furniture and household objects I encountered. I installed these figures on the boarded-up walls of an abandoned house near the San Basilio church — a site once used for posting death notices. In a sense, my work became another kind of memorial, honouring the lingering warmth and memory within Graniti’s old architecture and forgotten homes. This project reflects on nostalgia, belonging, and the meaning of ‘home’, with each doll becoming a symbolic resident of the town, carrying its own story.

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