May 31, 03:31 pm
home
This is my response to the “home” prompt. I don’t connect with images of houses as a lot of artists seem to, and I’ve always wondered why. After thinking about it while I worked on this page, I’ve decided it is because I have always moved often, both as a child and as an adult, and also because we don’t yet own a house of our own. The idea of a home is fairly fluid for me, separate from the house itself. I long to have a home/house that is ours, but we just can’t afford it yet – the CA real estate market is crazy. What feels like home to me is both big – the part of this state where I have settled – and small – the nests I make in my living and working environments where I retreat to recharge. The image here is a bird’s eye view of the coastline where I live. I blurred the text in this image, but along the coast I’ve written in the 7 addresses to each of the homes I have lived in in the 12 years I’ve lived in this community. One house I lived in twice, so that’s really 8 houses in 12 years. Hopefully the current one is the last for a while…
Background is Daniel Smith Iridescent acrylic paint on watercolor paper, drawn into with Lyra art crayons and colored pencil. Title is stenciled with a letter template from the hardware store onto a map fragment. Journaling written on Creative Imaginations PP.
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