Home: Artist Statement
Home: It is the seat of our political landscape. Home is where it all starts. It is where what we know about our world and what we believe about how it should operate (and who should do what when and who shouldn't be allowed to do what when) begins.
Our politics are announced with the residential area we live in and right down to the dishware we chose. The makeup of our family and how we address them tells others who we are. Each painting that hangs in our house and which books we leave out on display announces our educational level and focus. The car we drive and park in the front, how we dress our children and where we insist they go to school all provide pieces of information that others use to understand us. So while, most often, "home" conjures up Norman Rockwellian images of turkey feasts surrounded by family at the dining room table with sugar plums and happy times.... home is actually more often than not the place where we are birthed into the world as human beings with all the mess, pain, missteps, loves, heartaches, joys, regrets, and shame contained in this vessel and surrounded by those who either love us unconditionally despite it all or disapprove of us regardless of what heroes we become.
Our politics are announced with the residential area we live in and right down to the dishware we chose. The makeup of our family and how we address them tells others who we are. Each painting that hangs in our house and which books we leave out on display announces our educational level and focus. The car we drive and park in the front, how we dress our children and where we insist they go to school all provide pieces of information that others use to understand us. So while, most often, "home" conjures up Norman Rockwellian images of turkey feasts surrounded by family at the dining room table with sugar plums and happy times.... home is actually more often than not the place where we are birthed into the world as human beings with all the mess, pain, missteps, loves, heartaches, joys, regrets, and shame contained in this vessel and surrounded by those who either love us unconditionally despite it all or disapprove of us regardless of what heroes we become.
