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Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home [2019]

Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home is an exploration of the concept of displacement in relation to migration and the concept of home. Using staged photography, the project questions the notion of home and its shifting meaning in the mind of a displaced person. By intentionally shifting the interior and exterior spaces, the familiar and the unfamiliar, and the private and public, Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home attempts to differentiate between the physicality of home and the idea of home as something intangible.

“What I remember, what takes my breath away, are not so much the giddy experiences of moving and the disorientation of being out of place, but the ways we have of settling; that is, of inhabiting spaces that, in the first instance, are unfamiliar but that we can imagine – sometimes with fear, other times with desire– might come to feel like home. Such becoming is not inevitable. It is not always obvious which places are the ones where we can feel at home.”
- Sara Ahmed

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Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home [2019]

Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home is an exploration of the concept of displacement in relation to migration and the concept of home. Using staged photography, the project questions the notion of home and its shifting meaning in the mind of a displaced person. By intentionally shifting the interior and exterior spaces, the familiar and the unfamiliar, and the private and public, Impressions of Those Giddy Places We Call Home attempts to differentiate between the physicality of home and the idea of home as something intangible.