Willem Henri Lucas: Voyage Around My Room
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English - April 09, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Willem Henri Lucas is a professor in the Design Media Arts department at UCLA. These days he’s in Zoom meetings and classes a lot, catching glimpses into other people’s homes and private lives.
As a consummate collector, he's fascinated with the objects people collect and display in their homes. His downtown LA loft is filled with art, books, masks and other trinkets that he bought at flea markets on his foreign trips.
"What I'm interested in still is what home actually means. In the times that I've moved, I realized it was not just the space that you're in, like the actual building or the actual surrounding, that it's memories and that it's things," Lucas said.