installation- silkscreen, monoprint, sewing, collage, embroidery, audience participation: writing and/or drawing and/or collage on paper hung on copper line with clothespins
12′ x 12′ x 12′
home.mark is a participatory installation that explores the ways we define, remember, and carry the idea of home. Through writing, drawing, collage, and conversation, visitors are invited to contribute their own reflections, memories, and visual responses to a growing collective archive. Visitors can publically display their work with clothespins on copper wire or privately inside jars within the installation, allowing the work to evolve over the course of the exhibition. Home is not only as a physical place, but an experience shaped by memory, belonging, family, migration, loss, comfort, trauma and longing. By bringing together personal narratives from many participants, home.mark reveals both the uniqueness of individual experiences and the common threads that connect us. The installation becomes a temporary gathering place where small acts of sharing create a larger portrait of how we understand home and our place within it.
