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Ariel, 25 - Seoul, South Korea

"내 방은 내가 제일 편하게 쉴수있는 곳입니다. 가만히 누워서 쉬기도하고 피아노치여 놀기도 하고 인터넷서핑을하며 시간을 보내기도 합니다. 최근에는 사진찍는데 취미가 생겨 내가 찍은사진을 방벽에 붙여서 감상하기도 합니다. 앞으로는 내방벽에 전부 사진을 붙여 내방을 꾸며 내 방에 놀러오는 친구나 손님에게 보여주고 싶습니다. 그래서 나를 떠올리면 사진찍는절 좋아하는 아이라고 인상을 받길 바랍니다. 나중에 내방을 작은 미술관으로 만들면 어떻까 생각도 합니다. 미래에 사진전을 열면 내 방으로 놀러오세요." Translation: "My room is where I can comfortably relax. I can just lay here, play the piano, and surf on the internet, which is how I spend most of my time. Lately, I've been interested in taking pictures and often appreciate the photos on my wall. From now on, I will decorate my walls with pictures that I've taken and show to my friends who visit my room. So I hope when they think of my room they can also think of me as someone who enjoys taking pictures. I often think about how my room would look like if it was a small gallery. If I host an exhibition, you're welcome to come to my room."

Jandee, 23 - Suji, South Korea

"내방. 나만의 공간이지만 모두에게 열려있다. 사적인 순간을 원할때 조차도 공개되고 공유된다. 발코니가 있다. 가족들이 쓰는, 함께 사용하는 공간이다. 방문은 잠길수없다. 겨울에는 춥다. 발이 얼거 컴퓨터를 하는 순간조차 마우스 잡는 손은 항상 차갑다. 이불을 꽁꽁 싸매지 않으면 얼어버릴 수도 있겠다는 생각이 든다. 방을 꾸미지는 않는다. 최악의 구조 속에 최소한의 가구들만이 좋자한다. 다음번, 언제가 될지는 모르는 나의 방에 약속한다. 예쁘게, 꼭 살고싶은 방으로, 질투날 정도로 예쁘게 꾸여주겠다고. 그리고 꼭! 따뜻한 방이 될수있도록." Translation: "My room. This is my personal space but it is always opened to everyone. Even when I want personal space the room is opened and shared. There is a balcony in my room that my family often use. So this space is shared and can't be locked. It's too cold during the winter. My feet are frozen. At the moment when I use my computer, my hand that uses the mouse controller is frozen. I think I can be frozen to death unless I entirely cover myself with blankets. I do not decorate the room. Minimum furniture exists in the worst structure. In my next room, I don't know where it will be, I will promise you. I will make you pretty and warm where everybody will desire to live."

Yisue, 20 - Seoul, South Korea

"나의 방은 내가 마음대로 할 수 있는 공간입니다. 제가 원하는 것이 있고 내가 원하는 것을 할 수 있습니다. 그래서 책을 아무렇게 쌓아놓아도 되고 옷을 아무렇게나 벗어놔도됩니다. 그렇기 대문에 나는 내 방이 편하고 좋습니다." Translation: "My room is a place where I can do whatever I want. It's where I'd like to do things and can do them. So I can place my books anywhere I want and I can leave my clothes anywhere I'd like. That's why I find my room to be comfortable and I like it."

Rydia, 25 - Itaewon, South Korea

"My room, my bedroom is my sanctuary. A place I ran and still run to for peace and to shed tears to soak into my pillow. My pillow has been my longest friend and savior. Ah...only if it could talk...My bedroom is a collection of who I was and what I am today...the past & present lives on together in this tiny space...Gustav Klimt, Garfield, my passion of art and color all exists and breathes in this space. My bed has been so many tears and shared so much laughter...A place where I can shed the mask, a place where I can just be me...A place of rest, peace, and reflection - that is my bedroom."

Juan Carlos, 28 - Marilao, Philippines

"Ang aking kuwarto ay nagpapakita kung anong klaseng tao ako...simple lang dito kung saan ko pinaplano at madalas iniisip ang para sa hinaharap, kasalukuyan at nakaupas na mga panahon. Dito ako nagpapaupas ng oras at panahon kapag gusto kong mapag-isa dahil dito nagiging payapa ang aking isipan." Translation: "My room is representing what kind of person I am....it is just simple here, where I am planning and most of the time thinking for the future, present, and the past. This is where I spend time if I wanted to be alone, and doing this makes my mind feel at ease."

Mario, 23 - Brooklyn, New York

"My room represents my character, my likes & loves of my life. It's basically me on four walls."

Alisha, 19 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts

"Even though my room is always messy, I love it. I feel so comfortable. My bed is such a piece of shit but I know there's a couple spots where I get cozy. I'm mostly at my computer. My life is on there. I am an artist and my walls are covered in photographs and paintings, and polaroids. when I have a room covered in art, I feel inspired. I feel more of an artist in my room. I love it."

Max, 24 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts

“I’ve moved seventeen times in my life, and I’m about to move again in a few weeks. My room has always been nothing more than a vessel, a storage space that gets me from one day to the next. It’s a place to sleep and a place for my stuff that I’ll maybe use once in a while I’ll have a guest but beyond that having it clean is purely for comfort once I come home from a long day at work. If the place will look like crap even after I clean up, it tends to never happen cause it never makes the difference. If it looks great when I clean, it tends to always be so. All in all my room is merely a means to an end, my goal and priority at this point in my life is not home nor nice apartment but putting every aspect of myself and career at the forefront.”

Jude, 19 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts

“My room is organized chaos. Kind of like me; a mess of tons of thoughts and junk that I accumulate + store in away that could only make sense to me. I collect things, other peoples things, + add them to the piles. I’ll eventually go through + clean. Clutter actually both stresses me out + makes me feel comfy, so I constantly find myself in this cycle of collecting + piling, then purging + organizing everything.”

Jacquie, 23 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts

"My room is the only place I can feel completely comfortable and be myself. I can do or be whatever I image and no one is there to judge me. I can lock myself in whenever I want and blast the music, dance naked, watch a movie, cry, draw, anything really. I think my room represents who I am and I wouldn't want to change that."

Zack, 19 - Turners Falls, Massachusetts

"All of the junk in my room shows a story of my life, photos, posters, movies, books, those things have shaped me as a person because these things are constantly around me. So in reality its not junk that fills my room...its memories of my life."