Mirella Ryser’s Foundations embodies the internal conflicts of navigating the balance between comfort and confrontation. The fabricated house form features an interior and exterior that are distinct from one another through color, imagery, and form. Composed of bedsheets, and pillow cases, the sculpture’s materiality alludes to the place where we experience the most rest and unrest. The poem, spread through a series of windows, narrates themes of escapism and wanting, while the stamped text echoes the repetitive and cyclical nature of one’s internal dialogue and reflections. Ryser explores the relationship of these feelings in correlation to anxiety, isolation and fear as the outer shell acts as a cushioned cover for what is held inside. The walls, contrasting yet connected, mirror elements of one another that bring together the two disparate realities to cohabitate within one world.