The shelter is a blueprint of the stable house, and the nomad is a blueprint of the sedentary. Lara Dhondt is interested in the minimalist human need to appropriate a personal space; how does one conquer a place in the world? Dhondt endeavors to create these demarcations in the urban landscape, working as fast as possible, using waste materials gathered on the spot. The photographic representation becomes a document of an ephemeral, personal shelter in public space. These constructions can generate and feed ‘daydreaming’. They function as primitive, primary sculptures, with a scale based on human measurements. The artist refers to the installations she constructs in the periphery of the city as public sculptures. They are her traces of daydreaming, and the catalysts of a poetic resistance against the uniform and the comfortable.