The image of ‘home’ may represent a longing for a home that can never be, or one that never existed. Perhaps the reality of knowing home, feeling at home, is only ever ephemeral and fleeting. Perhaps ‘home’ is abstract – an unreal place. And the domestic operates as a signifier for absence.
Domestic imagery has been used as a vehicle for demonstrating the personal as political. The immediacy and detail of our domestic existence causes us to reflect on shared assumptions. The journey is a constant cycle; it reverberates in the outside world and travels back to the dining room table.
Using a variety of materials, I use a process of layering, collaging, cutting and sticking with film, object, space and sticky back plastic.