Home Samples

Exploring New Homes

2008-08-29T19:22:00.000+01:00

Creeping Inside

2008-06-04T05:11:00.000+01:00

Remains

2008-05-18T15:59:00.000+01:00

Home by the Sea

2008-05-02T15:47:00.002+01:00

creeping up the blind side,
shinning up the wall
stealing thru the dark of night
climbing thru a window,
stepping to the floor
checking to the left and the right
picking up the pieces,
putting them away
something doesnt feel quite right

help me someone,
let me out of here

then out of the dark was suddenly heard
welcome to the home by the sea

Home by the Sea, Genesis

Home - The Movie

2008-04-19T18:12:00.002+01:00

Feeling at Home while Traveling

2008-04-16T22:42:00.003+01:00

1. Family Photographs
2. Your own pillow
3. Comfort food
4. Writing postcards
5. Favourite music
6. Favourite book
7. Favourite item of clothing
8. Slippers
9. Scened candles
10. Taking your loved ones with you.

2008-03-27T17:50:00.001Z

'Show me the way to make a start.

Show me the road back to your heart.

And I've learned the only truth that I need to know.

There's a million places I can go.

But without you it ain't home.

It ain't home.'

Home, Westlife

2008-03-21T17:24:00.003Z

'The village was a marvel of small, heaped houses raised jauntily on groundsels of limestone, and arranged in rows on either side of the multiplying marl roads. Sometimes the roads disintegrated, the limestone lid back and the houses advanced across their boundaries to meet those on the opposite side in embrace of board and shingle and cactus fence. The white marl roads made four are each crossing except where the road narrowed to a lane or alley that led into a tenant's backyard.'
In The Castle of My Skin, George Lamming

The definition, the definition is this...

2008-03-04T18:58:00.001Z

home

1. A place where one lives; a residence.
2. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
3. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
4. a. An environment offering security and happiness.
b. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.

5. The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
6. The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
7. The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
8. A headquarters; a home base.

9. a. Baseball Home plate.
b. Games Home base.
10. An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly.

11. Computer Science
a. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
b. A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list.

Rear View

2008-03-04T17:34:00.001Z

'Home is where we start from, but home is also
where we are bound for, the place we always seek.'
David Steindl-Rast

What does home mean to you?

2008-03-01T16:25:00.004Z

What do you want the idealised or the real view of home answer?
Either of these versions will be effected by the past, present and future.
Home means safety, security and love but at the same time cold ( physical as well as emotional).

This is a shift between the idealised and the reality.
The answer to the question will always depend on a state of mind.
If its in the mind is dwelling in the positive or the negative sphere will mould the answer.

There's the abstract concept of home, which I'm working with here, but there's also my actual home which I'm living with now.
And both versions are difficult to pin down, describe and explore.

Open Window

2008-02-29T01:35:00.001Z

Gone With the Wind

2008-02-29T01:27:00.000Z

'"I won't think of it now," she said again, aloud, trying to push her misery to the back of her mind, trying to find some bulwark against the rising tide of pain. "I'll--why, I'll go home to Tara tomorrow," and her spirits lifted faintly.

She had gone back to Tara once in fear and defeat and she had emerged from its sheltering walls strong and armed for victory.What she had done once, somehow--please God, she could do again!How, she did not know. She did not want to think of that now. All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt, a quiet place to lick her wounds, a haven in which to plan her campaign. She thought of Tara and it was as if a gentle cool hand were stealing over her heart.

She could see the white house gleaming welcome to her through the reddening autumn leaves, feel the quiet hush of the country twilight coming down over her like a benediction, feel the dews falling on the acres of green bushes starred with fleecy white, see the raw color of the red earth and the dismal dark beauty of the pines on the rolling hills.'
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Welcome Home

2008-02-28T01:46:00.000Z

'"Welcome back. We've wondered when you'd come home."
Her eyes brightened as she took his hand. The instant his fingers closed over hers, he felt a connection. Still reeling from that, he narrowed his eyes, wondering.
She didn't appear to have noticed anything unusual.
"I like the sound of that," she mused. "Home." '
Secrets of the Wolf, Karen Whiddon

What does home mean to you?

2008-02-27T02:04:00.000Z

A home can be defined in many ways. It's a residence, a family dwelling place, and often times a refuge from the outside world. It's made of walls, and windows, and doors, which can keep people out, keep people in, or open freely so all may enter and leave as they wish. The concept of home has been characterized in many ways over time.
Sherry Holetzy

Minty Alley

2008-02-26T13:24:00.000Z

'One night however, he was walking along Victoria Street and almost instinctively came to a halt when he reached Minty Alley.
The front door and windows were open, and from the street he could see into the drawing-room. Husband and wife and three children lived there and one of the children was sitting at the piano playing a familiar tune from Hemy's music-book. Over and over she played it, while he stood outside, looking in at the window and thinking of old times.'
Minty Alley, C.L.R.James

Home Samples

2008-02-25T14:02:00.000Z

This month marks my second visit to Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago. Looking through the photographs taken during last year's and this year's trip, one image seems to dominate; the house representing 'home'.
I was talking to Andrea last night about the artist, Sophie Calle. Andrea said that Calle could never fully resolve her fascination with money. She completed different art projects about or around the subject of money but never quite felt that she had adequately satisfied this obsession with the concept of money.
I think I feel the same way about home, internally and externally.
What is home? How do we make a home? How do we gain that feeling of being 'home'?
These images, thoughts and feelings haven't left my head for years. They surface at different times, in different places, but are always there.
Home as a constant idea interests and intrigues me. I suppose I'm taking the space now, here, to explore it further, to document the processes, journeys and samples I take and make around the idea of 'home'.