“Zeitgeist 1, “directly challenges the western notion of portraiture as simply a photographic representation. It also serves as the artist’s self-portrait. The “house” is a substitute for the body—-the physical body, a body of work, or of life itself. It refers to the Chinese traditional burial custom of burning a paper house filled with all the necessities one’s loved one will need in the afterlife. The exterior depicts visual “words” and memories as the sum total of the artist’s life. If one peers through the window or door,  one can view a ceramic bed on top of which lies a flash drive containing the subject’s voice, thoughts and writings. It was created as a prototype for a future commission.