No Place Like Home
These are sketches, drawings, and prints over the last few years that developed into the work and installation for my 2009 exhibition, "No Place Like Home" at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, NV.
"Every time I go home, the potatoes in my mother's cupboard are sprouting."
Masked by a deceptive simplicity, the complexities of this statement haunt me. Its subtle implications capture the concept of this developing series of work: that I am no longer home and I feel a sadness and longing for a place that no longer exists. It constitutes my perpetual struggle to recreate or represent a notion of home, the anxiety of living up to family expectations and the tension I experience in my displacement and disjuncture.
The tension is something I am particularly interested in exploring because it is the different aspects of that which consume me. It emphasizes the strained relationships: growth despite nurture, or despite oppressive nurture, and my constant seeking of approval and acceptance. Then there is the tension of the gap of where I am from and where I am now—both physically and personally.
"Every time I go home, the potatoes in my mother's cupboard are sprouting."
Masked by a deceptive simplicity, the complexities of this statement haunt me. Its subtle implications capture the concept of this developing series of work: that I am no longer home and I feel a sadness and longing for a place that no longer exists. It constitutes my perpetual struggle to recreate or represent a notion of home, the anxiety of living up to family expectations and the tension I experience in my displacement and disjuncture.
The tension is something I am particularly interested in exploring because it is the different aspects of that which consume me. It emphasizes the strained relationships: growth despite nurture, or despite oppressive nurture, and my constant seeking of approval and acceptance. Then there is the tension of the gap of where I am from and where I am now—both physically and personally.
