My personal life continues to feel crazy. My trip to Wyoming was great upon returning I moved 24 hours later. Needless to say some other things have taken my away from writing on my blog. I have continued to shoot a lot in both my apartments now that I have moved in I need to photograph objects and belongings in my new space. I had planned to photograph objects as I unpacked them but that become more challenging than I expected. I still plan to make a sort of catalog but that will come in time. In a week I'm gone again to South Africa which I'm so excited about it will be a trip of a lifetime. Then it's time to get back to work both in the studio and with my teaching job. Today I went to the DeCordova Annual Exhibition I new two of the artists and enjoyed some of the work. Especially what Marguerite White had to say about light, "Light can alter the way we perceive our surroundings, prompting memories and provoking the imagination to see or experience a place differently." I also enjoyed the ideas Vanessa Tropeano and Matt Brackett spoke about in there work. I have yet to see my work in the BYC show I went the other day but sadly the gallery wasn't open.

As I sat in my studio this afternoon looking through work and deciding where to go next I had the following thoughts. Home, what is my home as I try to get a stronger grasp on those concepts I have been photographing my old and new apartment both empty and with belongings in them. What is it that makes home, I am beginning to believe my understanding of home is through my connection to the objects in my life. This has become more apparent as I photograph my spaces empty and see them just as spaces I once occupied or anyone occupied for that matter. They become my home when my belongings are in them. Photographing my spaces throughout my move has proved to be more difficult than I imagined beyond having some other things happening in my personal life moving brings about anxiety. I make a direct correlation to that anxiety from moving back and forth as a child and now in my adult life I continue to move just less frequently. So now the question how do I make my images come together and create a sense of home and place?
Ideas of space keep floating in my mind personal space something we all need and want, and yet feeling comfortable in my own personal space. The space I occupy how I and how I deal with space and belongings. So much of that seems to stem from out culture and need to have material possessions yet those are what make up my personal sense of home and others as I speak to people about what makes home for them.