HOMEBODY

APPROACH

Homebody is an ongoing photographic project which explores how the relationship between the human body and the sense of home gradually transforms upon cross-cultural transitioning. Drawing on personal experience with migration, Homebody is in part an observation of this relationship once it has become fundamentally shaped by the absence of memories and experiences. Equally, it seeks to discover a new meaning within this absence. The physical distance between the body and place prompts an emotional rupture between the self and home. Still, new perspectives can be discovered within this void; unexpected truths become visible, and a newfound clarity emerges.

This project seeks to convey this by investigating the relationship between body and place. Here, the sense of absence is balanced with a physical presence, represented by my sister who becomes a literal and symbolic extension of our shared experience of migration. This balance is further echoed by a visual synergy of the familiar and the strange, introducing an alienation which instills home with a sense of foreignness. In lieu of actual memories and experiences, our feelings of home cling to the appearance and surface of things, transforming mundane scenery to become imbued with an even greater significance.

PHOTOGRAPHY