The Exhibition: The Way Home

I set out to understand the pull that home has on me. I wanted to explore the concept of; place, meaning, and feeling that home represents. I have lived in places that never felt like home and I have been to new environs that gave me the warmth and security of what I deemed home should feel like. The search and longing for home is what drove this project. There is a conflict within me I am trying to resolve through art. I want to belong somewhere yet I don’t really know if I have a strong connection to any one place. There are places and people however that pull me towards them and I have used these as my pinpoints of my concept of home. It’s a seeming ache or need to feel like we belong somewhere in this world.

I use photography to capture the real places and things I encounter. In the studio I deconstruct and manipulate the images to create a representational artwork that aligns with the emotional impact I felt from the place and object that I experienced. I attempt to embody the feelings I had in these places, or how I have been moved by my participation as a witness. My artwork is used to create waypoints in place and time on this ever growing map.