Every trip back “home”, my place of birth, is often met with a sense of disappointment, filled with imaginations of places far away. Every departure from home is met with memories of a “home”, and a strong yearning for a return. Every place of residence is a space activity negotiated to belong and make a “home” of. This is the dilemma and my ambivalence to the idea of home.

I have tried to create a space where the viewer strays from the everyday, the boundaries between reality and fiction break down, and the sense of place and time disrupts. Any attempt to reason only questions the very act of reasoning. My installations primarily work on and by affect, the feeling the visuals and the objects convey. My hope is that our sense of the “self” and being who we are ceases, even momentarily. I hope the space pushes the margins between our conscious and unconscious, tempting our imagination to conjure vivid memories from the past and images from a distant future.

It is an arduous task to find language to describe the most important element of my work- the feeling. For language will root and frame these works within a wider institutional discourse, ultimately locking the feeling from reaching our unconscious. Once language is inscribed into the work, the faculty of our unconscious shuts down and we the viewer will be forced to read it from our logical, conditioned conscious, forever stripping the work from ever reaching the depths of our mind.