“What is Home?”

After a long period of being nomadic, I found myself continually asking, “What is Home?” This solo exhibition brings together a body of work that reflects my own experiential responses, emotions, questions, and the ever-changing landscapes I’ve encountered along the way. Through a dialogue of drawing, mark-making, photography, stitch, and print, I explore the transitional journey — the uncertainty of belonging and the complex emotions that come with leaving one place and temporarily integrating into another. This work reflects the tension between belonging and impermanence.

For me, the idea of home encompasses many overlapping and sometimes contradictory sensations. Home can be a place of belonging, permanence, fragility, refuge, joy, and even trauma. In today’s wider context of societal flux, politics, conflict, and climate change, I see home as an ever-shifting concept. I question the fragility of what home means to me as someone who, through choice, left my country of origin.

In “What is Home?” I use a blind drawing technique — creating lines on the reverse side of the paper, unseen until the sheet is turned over to reveal the marks made. This process invites looseness, unpredictability, and chance. I connect this sense of freedom to a guiding set of rules: the drawings are contained (and constrained) within references to architectural practice — the floor plan. These parameters become my new boundaries, my new geographies, my new homes — spaces where liberation and constraint coexist in constant opposition.