Shelter < Shellter < Shell Ter < Tere’s Shell proposes the analysis of an old piece of furniture of unknown provenience and use. The object is here considered for its possible protective function (”shelter”) and affinity to the inhabitability of a shell (”shellter”). The work establishes a method of visual research to be used in approaching an unknown object: through methodical identification of elements from my visual memory that presently form my gaze upon the object, I enacted a continuous parallelism between the piece of furniture and myself (”shell Ter”), hence making of it the repository of my personal images (”Tere’s shell”).

The piece of work consists of the installation of the piece of furniture, whose inside spaces are inhabited by four series of drawings: Morphology the Object , ‘A Place Giving Temporary Protection’ , Existable Shelters , and Tale Shelters . Each group examines multiple views of the object, offered by the definition of the word “shelter”, its fictional etymology from “shell”, and different meanings of the word according to historical, mediatical, and literary contexts.