Description
Set of three pieces, unframed.
19.5 x 13 inch (h x w)
Photography on Paper
Artist Statement:
As a visual artist, I often turn to photography as a means to express my identity and my history. My piece for the Gender Unbound Visual Showcase 2020 is three photographs that describe my “home”. When I think about what “home” means to me, it’s impossible to forget the time when everything I owned was stored in a car that was permanently parked on my college campus. For nearly two years, a concrete parking garage was what I considered my home.
I was kicked out of my mom’s house at twenty years old – and although it never truly felt like a home to me, it was the only place that I ever had to turn to. Though she and I eventually worked through our problems and became cordial with each other, this event permanently shifted my perception of “home”. Even now, with a bed and an apartment to come home to at the end of the day, I think of myself as not having a home. I constantly feel like there’s no place where I belong. Most people can turn to their family for support or the house they grew up in for comfort. For me, home is only what I can carry from place to place – and I’m worried that’s all it will ever be to me. Still, I hold space and softness in my heart for the home I was forced to create when I had nowhere else to turn.
