At first we don’t realise that we have a ‘home’.
We are one with the world.
Then we outgrow home, we leave home... or we lose home.
We miss home.
We seek home.
We build home.
We find a home in another.
We become a home to another.
We return home.
We are home.
Is it a place?
Is it a thing?
Is it outside?
Is it within?
Inside of what?
Outside of what?
Am I a home?
What is home?
This work is an addition to a series of prints I created for my solo show "I Am Home". It’s partially about a tiny island in Karelia where I spent every summer when I was a child, but also a tribute to Tove Jansson and an island she went to every summer to write in a little cabin, with just a few seagulls, a rowan and some rose bushes. An Island represents creative solitude to me - when you’re connected to yourself and the world, but disconnected from the big land and all its news, problems, conflicts and dramas… Freedom and presence. Searching for this inner (or outer?) island ever since.