This American Dollhouse II (a soft reboot), 2022

Incorporating layers of collaged paper, text and found items including detritus from their own home, the new work by Simon Evans™, This American Dollhouse II (a soft reboot), depicts the cross-section of the artists' house in Brooklyn NY, revealing the clutter, humor, and madness contained within. While certain objects point to the artists specifically, the doll house represents a universal experience: the daily and habitual patterns of life and domesticity, and our fraught relationship with material belongings.

We see a basement level, which is the artist's studio space, displaying a wall of connected "evidence", much like a detective's office. There are bits and pieces of their personal life, miniature versions of their own works, paired with pop-culture references like newspaper clippings, maps, and other found detritus. On the main living is the living room and kitchen - the sink is running, the oven is on fire, and a puzzle of the map of the world appears to be almost all assembled, with a few pieces remaining out of the place. A mask hangs on the door - the newest addition to the things you cannot leave you house without these days. The top floor is the bedroom, with a bare mattress, a mini-Mondrian, and a clock that says "WAR". Cigarette butts pepper the roof of the building, and a bag of trash with the Life Magazine logo is propped up next to the communal trash cans. This picture is filled with clever symbols about a world teetering on the edge of chaos.