Dream Homes – Giant-Size Edition

Dream Homes is a journey into the feverish dreams that haunt childhood and never truly disappear. Those hazy, slightly oppressive dreams where familiar places suddenly become unstable, where the home, meant to protect us, transforms into uncertain territory.

Both unsettling and strangely comforting, the book takes us from one house to another, each stranger than the last. Interiors that seem to breathe, rooftops that watch, gardens that conceal more than they reveal. Every space feels alive, charged with a presence that is difficult to name.

These houses are inhabited, haunted, infested with repulsive creatures. Dark, soft, sometimes grotesque forms emerging from walls, ceilings, or forgotten corners. And yet, despite their appearance, they are not always hostile. There is something ambiguous about them, something almost familiar, as though they had always been part of the scenery. As though they had grown up alongside us.

This is where the true power of Dream Homes lies: in constantly playing with the blurred line between fear and comfort. It evokes very specific sensations—the diffuse fear of the dark, noises somewhere in the house, the feeling that you are not alone—but also a strange, almost nostalgic sense of tenderness. A sensory memory of childhood nights.

The book does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it unfolds as a succession of fragments, visions, and miniature nightmares. Each page is a scene of its own, a doorway into a different mental space. Moving through them, the reader gradually reconstructs an intimate map of a strangely universal imagination.

More than a simple collection of images, Dream Homes acts as a distorted mirror. It reflects our own memories, our buried fears, our absurd dreams. This is a book that does not simply show: it reawakens.

An unstable territory inhabited by strange presences, where the home is no longer a refuge but an extension of the dream itself. A place you enter without ever really knowing whether you will find your way out—or whether you have always been there.

Published in a generous 29 × 29 cm format, Dream Homes was designed to fully showcase the virtuosity of John Kenn Mortensen’s artwork. Across 76 pages of deep black and white, each image is given room to unfold, revealing the richness of its details, the delicacy of the lines, and the almost obsessive precision of Mortensen’s drawing.

The choice of format is deliberate. It transforms the book into a truly immersive visual experience, allowing the eye to wander through textures, shadows, and countless tiny details hidden within each scene. Where a smaller format would compress the artwork, this edition opens it up, lets it breathe, and reveals the full hypnotic power of Mortensen’s work.

A fitting showcase for a visual universe as dense as it is fascinating.

Dream Homes is a large-format artbook by John Kenn Mortensen, the Danish artist renowned for his intricate black-and-white drawings populated by monsters, unsettling creatures, haunted houses, and visions drawn from the nightmares of childhood. With 76 pages in a 29 × 29 cm format, the book offers an immersive journey into Mortensen’s dark, fantastical, and extraordinarily detailed world. An artbook for collectors and lovers of dark art, horror illustration, macabre art, monsters, and strange imaginary worlds.