The Him Structure

The Him Structure is an interactive installation about how romantic media shapes our desires, or specifically, my desire: quietly, deeply and often irreversibly. It’s about the emotional blueprint we inherit from every love story we’ve ever believed. Built from fake TV screens, aluminum extrusions, projection mapping and unhinged soundbites of love confessions, the structure externalizes longing into architecture. It materializes the fantasies we’ve absorbed since childhood, making them not just inside us, but built around us, physically, dramatically and on loop. This is not a re-examination, but an ode: a brave, emotionally bare confession of how deeply I’ve believed, and how much of me was built from those beliefs.

As viewers approach the structure, sensors trigger scene changes, activating iconic romantic declarations such as “I love you” or “Will you marry me.” The system responds to proximity, as if obsession intensifies with closeness. Interaction is ambient and non-touch-based, reinforcing themes of distance, longing and scripted emotional response.