Dec 16, 2023
queering home.
a digital repository of what makes home home / a collection of personal artifacts and stories that embody home / a space to make home online, from bed, in all its weird, messy, lovely, difficult glory
seen from Germany
seen from Russia
seen from China
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from France
seen from Philippines
seen from Philippines
seen from Australia
seen from Switzerland
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from Mexico
seen from Malaysia
seen from Thailand
seen from United States
seen from Switzerland
seen from United States
seen from United States
queering home.
a digital repository of what makes home home / a collection of personal artifacts and stories that embody home / a space to make home online, from bed, in all its weird, messy, lovely, difficult glory
// photos by Kate Laine on Unsplash / Hanna Hagelin on Unsplash / mine / mine / Moon on Unsplash / mine / Kate Laine on Unsplash // (left to right, top to bottom)
my grandfather’s table, built with his own two hands, gifted to my father, and finally gifted to me as a place that now hold my keys and greets my as i re/orient myself to home.
// home is books gifted out of love and friendship // gifting words and places and memories // a secret santa gift from a long-lost friend who i look back on fondly // a novel gifted on a trip to visit a childhood friend // stories and poems from the mentor that believed in my writing, who pushed me and supported me // home is the people I carry with me and the objects that tell our stories
home is making space for failure and growth.
// this tart took so many trials and failures until everything went right. home is making space for those failures, feeling them deeply, and picking up and trying again.
// home is love painted on paper // home is my brother's art, carried with my as I move between cities // home is memories of laughter and blow-out fights, but no matter what, always being there
with my own two hands
in my family, there is a long held tradition of making things with your hands. my father makes masterpieces out of wood and his father before him did the same—a way to be thrifty and provide for his family when work and money was scarce. that deep held need to create with your own two hands, to provide for the people you love, was passed down to me in my own way. no less or better than creating with wood, just different and my own.
// photos by mine / Lena Myzovets on Unsplash / mine / mine / Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash // (left to right, top to bottom)
home is art, poetry, and collective memory making // home is poems as collective art in 2017 memorialized by my brother // two separate experiences with the same art immortalized, residing in my home as a symbol of his love for me.