Wherever you go there you are
“Art should ask more questions than it answers.”
The concept of what comprises “home” is complex and somewhat elusive. “Home is where the heart is”, so the saying goes, and indeed home is as much an emotional place as it is a physical one.
I lived in Budapest for 14 years – longer than any other place since I left home at the age of 18. At the time, when people heard about this lengthy tenure they nearly always remarked, “So, it’s home to you now.” While Budapest was familiar and I owned a flat there, my answer was, “No, not really...”
The question the heart really asks is more like, “Where do I belong?” in the cerebral sense, rather than the physical one. Humans have a need for a sense of place – where is it they fit in, in the greater scheme of things. This series explores those complex needs of searching for and understanding where one’s place is and the feeling of what comprises home.
Wherever you go there you are
2016
28 archival pigment prints, 6x6 inches (15x15cm)
Limited edition series of 5 (compete series) and 7 (individual prints), signed and numbered au verso
Installation at Fotourbe, Pereria, Colombia, 2016
Two palm trees, one has no fronds
A view from a dark room through the curtains to the world beyond
A railing frames a barrier reef in the distance
A panorama view of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany
Two staircases ascend and descend
A portico frames the facing sun
a self-portrait shadow next to a light switch
A single tower with dark windows angles through the image
dozens of shoes are tied together and are hanging from a telephone wire in the city
Abstract image of a tree
a rooster sculpture ponders its escape from an open window
abstract image of the shadow of wilting flowers on a table
Self-portrait of my hand resting on my leg
Side view of an abstract female torso
Garden chairs looking curiously off into the distance
abstract image of an airplane wing and cloud
abstract image of a tree's shadow on cobblestones
abstract image of steel girders and a tree
three barren trees
a domed steel and glass structure seen from inside and below
an obscure pathway in a woods
a paisley cobblestone courtyard with abstract lighting
An abstract image of a groomed bull fighting arena
reflections of square stones in a circular sculpture
shadows of running figures
juxtaposition of a tree against a skyscraper