The Original Room

The Original Room is an installation forming part of Persistent Matter, an evolving body of work exploring how reality is constructed through perception, memory and the environments we inhabit. The installation brings together multiple works, including painting, sculpture, architectural fragments and personal archive, to examine the deeply human impulse to construct external order in an attempt to navigate internal uncertainty.

Raised amidst both profound care and instability, Wooller developed an instinct to construct environments of light, order and possibility to find safety. Beginning with her own lived experience, she uses autobiography to ask broader questions about perception, memory and the invisible structures that shape our realities.

The installation includes the marble outline of Wooller's teenage bed, occupying the room in which she experienced profound instability, addiction and neglect, reclaimed interior doors from the homes that shaped her childhood, and sculptural interventions that transform remembered space into physical experience.

The images below are fragments of a single installation. Together they trace the movement between painting, sculpture, architectural intervention and archival material, revealing how autobiography becomes a framework through which broader questions of perception and human experience can be explored. Rather than functioning as separate artworks, these elements operate as one visual essay, held together through their shared investigation into care and neglect, presence and absence, and the continual search for order and equilibrium.