PRC’s 50th Anniversary Mentorship Program Fellow
ARTIST STATEMENT
House in Mourning
In the weeks leading up to my senior year of high school, my family was evicted from our home of fourteen years. We were given six days to pack up our entire life. Suddenly, I was homesick for a place that no longer existed—a physical space I had loved, lost, and never properly mourned.
Growing up, home was a red farmhouse with cream-colored trim, a tire swing hanging from a towering tree, acres of hayfields, and a driveway that always announced when you had arrived. It was where my family grew up, where memories lived in creaking floorboards, walls covered with artwork, and shelves littered with knick knacks.
Years later, I remain fascinated by how we carry our homes with us. I’ve begun to think of home as something beyond a physical place—the people, landscapes, cultures, and familiar rhythms that create a sense of belonging. Looking back, I realize that what made that house feel like home was deeply rooted in everything surrounding it.
This collection of photographs and keepsakes considers home as both a physical place and an emotional landscape—what we leave behind, what we inherit, and what remains long after we are gone. Blending present-day photographs with family archives, historical documents, and personal keepsakes, the work moves between past and present in search of what home has been and can be.
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