Annea Lyvv Dreisz
All the Houses I ever Knew

‘All the Houses I ever Knew’ is a series I started years ago.

Today I picked up on it again as my love for the houses mansions castles tents or cardboard boxes I ever lived in or my family lived in, my friends lived in, is endless. The place where you live plays such an important role on the quality and the dimension of your life. For example, I grew up in a very simple architecture house. Bricks, a few windows, a roof and a door. But nevertheless surrounded by endless woods, where my imagination and that of my friends was similarly endless. Whenever we needed a castle it was there, even though it was only the kantien of the local football club my father played in and was merely a wooden barak. But a castle it was. There was a jumping, so horses were no problem. Then there were my neighbours. They had their own private swimming pool. And the whole neighborhood was always welcome. So there we were, the kids of the neighborhood, very middle class, hanging in striped chaise longues during the whole summer jumping in a private swimming pool splashing the summer away… I knew then that something about my life was extraordinary...

Like the farm in the painting…

We would easily turn it into the White House and rule the world from the haystacks