“As an artist, Wexler recognizes that the imprint of home is the architecture of childhood, the armature for adult memory, following Gaston Bachelard’s belief that “all really inhabited space bears the essence… of home.” For Bachelard, home embodies the “thoughts, memories, and dreams of mankind.”3 Wexler extends this idea, perceiving domestic rituals and their trappings as the bones, and the relationships associated with them as the heart, of who we are…

Wexler wants viewers to slow down and think about the rituals that define each “room”— making coffee, setting the table, readying for bed—and to engage the transient joys in the stuff of life..”