The Meaning of Home

I Am Legend

This flow traces Robert Neville’s house from protective shelter to emotional archive and finally to a site of dispossession.

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Bearing strength in each event

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Constructed Sanctuary Constructed Sanctuary from "I Am Legend". A Fortified Interior Material Defense Boards, garlic, refrigeration, water, and electricity make Robert Neville’s house defensible.

Constructed Sanctuary from "I Am Legend". A Fortified Interior Material Defense Boards, garlic, refrigeration, water, and electricity make Robert Neville’s house defensible.

A Fortified Interior Material Defense Boards, garlic, refrigeration, water, and electricity make Robert Neville’s house defensible. Private World Books, music, murals, and tools reproduce fragments of civilization indoors. Contradiction The house protects life by excluding the world that makes life meaningful.

Archive of Loss Archive of Loss from "I Am Legend". Rooms of Memory Domestic Traces Kathy Neville’s room, Virginia Neville’s belongings, and the murals preserve former relationships.

Archive of Loss from "I Am Legend". Rooms of Memory Domestic Traces Kathy Neville’s room, Virginia Neville’s belongings, and the murals preserve former relationships.

Rooms of Memory Domestic Traces Kathy Neville’s room, Virginia Neville’s belongings, and the murals preserve former relationships. Avoidance Robert Neville moves through the house while trying not to remember the people who made it a home. Emotional Architecture Every object becomes both shelter and accusation.

House Taken House Taken from "I Am Legend". Dispossession Breach The new society breaks through the doors with axes and gunfire.

Dispossession Breach The new society breaks through the doors with axes and gunfire. Failed Surrender Robert Neville’s home cannot negotiate on his behalf or protect him from organized authority. Final Reversal He is dragged out of the one place where he had remained unquestionably human.

January 1976

1976年3月

January 1979