Home Is Not A Place

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Home is a warm hug from my mother, any time of the day. It’s reachable. It’s something that’s unlimited and free. You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”-Anita Baker

Where are you from is a very easy question to answer. I say, “Philippines” right away – without pausing or thinking. However, when the question “where is home?” arises, I stop. And pause. And think. I lived in different cities through the years and now that I don’t have a home base, it became more difficult to answer this question. Each of these artists disrobe America of its myths—and unveil the complicated and tedious nature of being an American. The works included in the exhibition celebrate the dissonance of loving the home they’ve found while championing, as Baldwin notes, “…the right to criticize her perpetually.” (3) For each moment of peaceful stillness, there is the arduous fight. Living well, building and supporting a community, and sharing one’s story are all forms of protest. To exist as an other in this country is the most meaningful and profound act of resistance. I get you clothes sometimes, so it would be perfectly reasonable if I got some from you too. Again, any guy who braves any type of dreadful clothing store deserves an award too. As if through a kaleidoscope, the artists work reveal the endless colors and shades of emotions within this country’s conflicted society and history. With Faith Ringgold’s series, Coming to Jones Road, the artist follows a 200 year narrative of a group of slaves headed north which ends in her modern day home on Jones Road in Englewood, New Jersey. With this series she “tried to couple the beauty of this place with the harsh realities of its racist history to create a freedom series that turns all of the ugliness of spirit, past and present into something livable.”

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Home is a memory of the goodness of life. It is the reminder of a life well-lived and the moments that have gone into living that life. Home is a reminder to smile, a reminder that there may be turmoil in the world, but you have a peace in you, and so you have a home. Home could be a lone beach in the middle of nowhere, or a sun you’ve watched set over the same horizon all your life. Home could be the laughter of children, yours…or someone else’s. A cup of tea, a gentle touch, the arms of a lover, the arms of a loved one. In the exhibition and accompanying book Robinson's poetry sits alongside Pitts' images from around the country. The show's title comes from a quote by American writer James Baldwin ‘perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition’.

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” Home isn’t a structure. The only place it is, is a feeling within you. Which is why while sometimes it might take travelling the world to “find yourself”, you find that you’d been inside of yourself all along. You’d been housing yourself all along and just needed to leave the confines of roots to truly feel at home. For while roots are important and comforting, they do not always represent home, we aren’t meant to be rooted, we are not trees. We are meant to find ourselves, however and wherever possible. It is easy to worry and focus on the things going wrong rather than the things going right. When we worry, we are draining ourselves, leaving us tired and weary. And that is exactly what the devil wants. He whispers in our ears all the negative aspects of a day, which can easily lead to anxiety and worry. Be strong and try to focus on the positive things. It’s better to focus on at least one positive thought amongst a thousand negative ones instead of focusing wholly on the negative.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Home is sitting down together for coffee at my parents’ garden overlooking the forest and sharing thoughts about life. Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’ Bernardine Evaristo Where you lied about your age to get on and frequently rearranged your "top friends" lists accordingly. 14. Abercrombie models

Despite the inexplicable and elusive nature of one’s sense of placelessness, it is a heavy bindle slung over one’s shoulder as one presses forward. Within this context of cultural estrangement and hybridity, communities have been built. Thus the exhibition looks not to the difficulties faced by outsiders making home in America, rather these artists explore the joy and power found within the spaces that they have created.Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.