The Home? Project

We are able to make a home anywhere on the surface of the Earth and beyond it.

Forests.   Rivers.   Seas.   Oceans.   Islands.   Deserts.   Jungles.   Alps.   Tundras.   Plains.   Mountains.   Orbit.

We subdivide the world into arbitrary chunks of home for ourselves and others.

Street.   Suburb.   City.   State.   Country.   Community.   Zone.   Belt.   Sector.   Ghetto.   Territory.   Reservation.   Camp.   Base.   Compound.

Our home usually includes a structure of some type that we leave from, return to, or take with us.

Cardboard Box.   Sleeping Bag.   Park.   Sidewalk.   House.   Apartment.   Tent.   Doorway.   Lean-To.   Swag.   Boat.   Alley.
Dumpster.   Squat.   Trailer.   Caravan.   Cave.   Car.   Mission.   Mansion.   Adobe Brick Hut.   Space Station.   

For many of us, home is as much about people as it is structure.

Parent.   Sibling.   Spouse.   Family.   Children.   Friend.   Social Group.

Our circumstances vary greatly within the context of home.

Refugee.   Detainee.   Migrant.   Alien.   Resident.   Citizen.   Transient.   Guest.   Settler.   Expatriate.   Gypsy.   Homeless Person.
Suburbanite.   Nomad.   Prisoner.   Displaced Person.   Asylum Seeker.   Dispossessed.   Family.   Invader.   Soldier.

Our home can change often during our lives due to choices we make, choices that are made for us, or reasons beyond our control.

Conflict.   Disease.   Famine.   Freedom.   Better Life.   Disaster.   Climate Change.   Politics.   Economics.   Employment.   Orders.   Wealth.   Prosperity.   Crime.

Home is fundamental to human existence. It is both dream and reality and we spend our lives seeking it, building and rebuilding it, changing it, and holding onto it. In the extreme, we fight and die for it. I have spent my entire life searching for a home and have found myself drawn to others whose stories are tightly bound to it. This project is a formalization of my exploration into people and their relationships with home that I intend to continue for the rest of my life.

The project aims to increase awareness and respect, and to encourage help for those whose reality of home falls short of their dreams and needs for it.