Belongingness And Home Analysis

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The work that I do is a product of my own history; it often revolves around the question of belongingness and home. Throughout my life I have lived in 16 homes, 10 cities/villages, 4 countries and 3 continents. The constant change, the constant need to adapt to new surroundings, new cultures made me question the notion of home and how that affects our identities. To explore this questions I make collages, I cut and paste, much like what I had to do every time I moved. In my work “My Galaxy” (2010), I explored the movement and the constant search for “a place to stop”. In this video installation still images turned in to a moving image that was played on a never ending loop. I continued look for what shapes ones identity, some would say where

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